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...cities have a blacker political past than Cincinnati. Extreme informality marked her electoral methods in the 20's. On election morning the first voters to the polls chose the judges. If a Democratic sheriff was in office, he was likely to round up all the Negroes in the calaboose for the day, lest they vote Republican. In the election of 1884, there were two fatal shootings and Election Judge William Howard Taft was one of the very few who went unarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proud Queen | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crusts on the Floor | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Wings Over Everest | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...main-stems and curves of the letters, has more refined junction strokes. The new type is called "Times New Roman." To harmonize with it was designed a new series of head fonts ("founts" to the Times') called "Modern Oldface." In appearance the paper's type will be blacker, solider than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Changed Thunderer | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...roared through Moorhead, Minn., headed for St. Paul across the prairie at 50 m.p.h. At the throttle was Engineer B. E. McKee. Behind him in the string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing its far-off rumble, he knew a tornado was near, jerked his throttle wide-open to outrace it. Out of the murk it came, an infernal funnel of dust and cloud, spinning along toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Tornado v. Train | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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