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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Kentucky's Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cattle-Herding | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

So great an industry has become the growing of grapes that its representatives last week were in Washington, buzzing hopefully about the offices of the Federal Farm Board, seeking loans to develop co-operation between producer and consumer, to eliminate waste.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farmers' Friend | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

The "most expensive cry" ever enjoyed by Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, deep-eyed, retired Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, was when she telephoned from Washington to California for moral support after she had been lampooned last summer as a religious incendiary (TIME, Aug. 12). So she revealed in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Word Wanglers | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

. . . The condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Southern Sayings | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Leave Them Alone | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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