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...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 4, 1934 | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Yale freshmen have decided (?) that they will not play Harvard '87 unless the game is played at New Haven on May 24th. Yale men are much dissatisfied with the 'freshman nine. Is it a "crawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

...only a few earlier monarchs were known, possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when he abandoned the Khorsabad palace after his father's death. The tablet he neglected to take along now furnishes the names of an unbroken succession of kings from the 23rd or 24th century B. C. down to one named Ashurnirari V (753-746 B. C.) When the tablet has been studied and photostated it will be returned to the Iraq Government, whose property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Repeal rounded the two-thirds mark without a break in its stride last week when Washington became the 24th State to approve the 21st Amendment. Voting by legislative districts, the State chose 95 Wet delegates, four Dry ones to its ratification convention in October. The popular vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Repeal, Capital Stock & Profits | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...amazed to receive your issue of the 24th on the morning of the 29th. As no five-day boat arrived during that time, I am unable to draw my conclusions. . . . Accept my congratulations for your promptness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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