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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continued the Senator: "President Hoover in his speech to the Associated Press minimized, if not actually extinguished, the importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was speechmaking in Ohio last week, when he heard that in Washington his son and namesake, who established an alcoholic reputation upon his recent return from Panama (TIME, April 22), had driven an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld Jr. let it be known last week that he and Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn had formed the Ziegfeld-Goldwyn Corp., which would start next January to produce "talkies" with the Ziegfeld tang and glamor, the Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Campolo. Perhaps the most interested spectator of the Schmeling-Uzcudun duel will be one Victorio Maria Campolo who last week arrived with friends in the U. S. from the Argentine. He stands 6 ft., 6½ in.; weighs 225 Ib.; scorns everybody's boxing ability but his own. Of his countryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milk & Money | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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