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Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Kenya Colony | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Southern Statesman | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...typical delinquent, dull in school, quit early to work as a servant or factory hand. She played with bad boys and girls, would not go to Sunday school, often ran away from home or "bunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Why Girls Go Wrong | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...TIME joined the Nazi school of anthropology? Under Races in the issue of Sept. 3, you classify the three dozen Hindus at Tempe, Ariz, with the Japanese as non-Aryan people. "Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley . . . or the Aryans would run them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Luck | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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