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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead, he has been living very quietly at his Washington home, Benjamin Franklin-wise, rising at 7:30 and retiring at 10:30, spending the day at his office, and riding in his automobile in the evening. Of speeches he has made none. In writing, every now and then? just often enough to keep on the front page?he injects himself into the public mind at regular intervals: writing a letter on the Ku Klux Klan, wiring the American Federation of Labor to thank it for its endorsement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallflower? | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...LaFollette living Benjamin Franklin-wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

Died. George Shiras, 92, ex-Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, in Pittsburgh of pneumonia. He graduated from Yale in '53?three years earlier than Chauncey M. Depew. Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison, he served from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 11, 1924 | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...couching this last phrase, Dr. Wilson was probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Graven Images | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...Died. Benjamin G. Lamme, 60, famed electrical engineer; at East Liberty, Pa. (see Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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