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...have before me the portraits of all the men who have been President of the United States. They number 29. I have counted them carefully. Yet on at least five occasions since election TIME has gravely and informatively told its readers that Herbert Hoover will be the 31st President. I add his portrait to the row-it only makes 30. Kindly explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including an administration of their own by two generations of the potent Presidential Tylers of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again Tyler | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...that the electorate has been agitated to a state of anticipation, if not of excitement, by the prospective election of the 31st President, how might shrewd crooks make gain without accepting direct graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Racket | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Spanish War lieutenant in the 31st Michigan Infantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Cleveland hotels last week, porters gathered up empty whiskey bottles, maids cleaned cigar stubs out of bathtubs, policemen went home to rest. The Prophets of the Grotto had left (see MISCELLANY, p. 19), and there were coming the Christian Endeavor young people, whose 31st international convention was immediately following that of the Prophets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Endeavor | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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