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...York World (reputed to have paid him $10,000) a series of articles amplifying those accusations. Photostatic copies of letters sent him by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, onetime Prohibition Bureau Director James Maurice Doran (now Director of Industrial Alcohol), and Acting Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal illustrated his text. Most important among those accused of hindering the Administrator: Charles Curtis, Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Campbell's Inferno | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...crimson jerseys and using the Harvard formations, featured the first workout of the week this afternoon as the Elis began preparation for the final game of the season against the Crimson in Cambridge on Saturday. Every member of the Blue squad reported for practice, including Albie Booth, Hoot Ellis, Alf Beane, and Tom Taylor, all of whom received treatment in the infirmary yesterday for minor injuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HAS HARD SCRIMMAGE | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...brothers: Otto, Gus, Henry, Charlie, Alf T., Al and John. Only John is now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...alf o' Creation she owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Poet Rudyard Kipling insulted Queen Victoria with a Barrack Room Ballad. It hailed, "the Widow at Windsor," rollicked that she sent her soldiers to "barbarious wars," bellowed that she had bought " 'alf 'o Creation" with English blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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