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...White & Blue, the hue all thoroughgoing U. S. citizens should logically be, includes such personages as Mayor William Hale Thompson, American Legion Commander Edward Elwell Spafford, Mrs. Ella Boole, John Roach Straton, Billy Sunday, Dr. Frank Crane, Elks, Grotto, Rotary, Lions. Moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Chairman Berger | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Justice Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals elaborated the view that punishment of criminals should take the form of compulsory restitution to society of whatever the criminals have taken from society. "When a man has killed another, why should the widow be left to starve when this man, under the law, might be compelled to provide a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Buffalo | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Spontaneous rejoicing burst forth, however, when it was announced that a crane had been seen to flap sedately three times around the Imperial Palace: a man-symbol, according to Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Festivities Omitted | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...FRANK CRANE, 66, Manhattan; onetime Methodist Episcopal clergyman, long a journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ablest Preachers' | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Hundreds of passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flagpole Rooster | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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