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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Col. Shoemaker says: "By raising the bird and dropping it suddenly it Avas made to flutter as it was going down; and the flying birds, seeing it, would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

¶ The executive committee of the Governors' conference met last week in Washington. Afterwards they went to the White House to pay their respects to President Hoover. Rhode Island's Case made the presentations, after announcing that they "didn't want anything." Broke in Virginia's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

(3 of 3) witness was a onetime stool pigeon of the police vice squad-a loose-lipped little South American called Chile Mapocha Acuna La-tore, onetime waiter at Washington's Congressional Country Club. Lounging in the witness chair, this individual made a series of rank revelations about his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Scandals of New York (Cont.) | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Considerable gloom tempered the Christmas festivities of Fascist officials last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Excuse for a Deficit | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

After the boundaries had quieted down a peasant found the frontier ran through his house, making his lavatory foreign ground. It would have taken him two weeks, every time, to get his passport visaed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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