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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...charges made against me so preyed upon my mind that I trembled upon the very edge of eternity.† . . . I never stole an election. . . . How unfair and unjust my accusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and technicalities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senator-Reject | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Defendant McManus, free on light bail while court was recessed, went to a Thanksgiving Day football game in Manhattan. Robbers entered his Riverside Drive apartment, stole $8,000 worth of jewelry and clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Tammany's Rothstein | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Other Coolidge pets: Do-Funny, trained troupial, tweaker of ears; Old Bill, thrush; Peter Pan, first Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Presidential Pets | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Caraway: You contributed more people who stole everything they could get their hands on than any other five States! They even stole the library out of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Light on Lobbying | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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