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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aware that Congressmen drink, often to excess and not infrequently during legislative hours, than Senator Caraway of Arkansas. His practice of wandering moodily all over the Senate chamber while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Whass Bizness ... ? | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Young, pretty, impulsive, utterly reckless, Thea Rasche, Germany's crack lady stunt-flier, arrived here last week and repaired at once to Curtiss Field, there to inspect a Stinson Detroiter monoplane in which she plans to fly to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...will not, as unsophisticated parents of ambitious girls may well imagine, command his prospective employes to stand before him naked. He will inspect them when they are dressed and standing still. After this, he sends most of them home. Then he will have the remainder in bathing suits, for a more detailed investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ziggy | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Professor G. W. Pierce, A.M. '00, and others will explain what opportunities are open to men concentrating in Physics. A chance will be afforded to inspect the various sorts of advanced studies which are now being carried out in the Jefferson and Croft Laboratories. Those attending this informal conference will also be able in small groups to see the researches now being conducted in high pressure, spectroscopy, and high frequency electrical currents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICS OPEN HOUSE WILL WELCOME CONCENTRATORS | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

From Rome he went sightseeing leisurely, a man who at 74 has his vast business in able hands,** to Florence. Venice, Milan, Paris, where Dr. Albert D. Kaiser his personal physician on the African expedition, finally left his party. In Paris Mr. Eastman paused to inspect the Pathe factory which the Eastman company recently bought. After Paris were to come visits to the two Eastman factories at Berlin and one in Austria. Mr. Eastman finds it entertaining to examine the institutions that his early work with camera and films has created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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