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Actually Secretary Stimson's goat, the one attributed to him, which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World Court | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Harlem: "When I got to Congress and nominated my first candidate for West Point I picked the blackest boy I could find anywhere. My appointee has been writing disheartening letters. ... If the young man gets cold feet and quits West Point because of any racial discrimination, next time I'll appoint a bigger and blacker Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Bigger & Blacker | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...have returned gentlemen, from the blackest spot on the continent of America. In that prison colony just sufficient food is served to keep the men strong enough to work tinder the tropical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUIANA: Blackest Spot | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...competition with the rapidly rising Dunlap hat. Whether because Robert Dunlap, liberal, kindly, used frequently to suspend production in Dunlap shops while he bought beer for the men and ice cream for the women, or because of a secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt. As for Knox-Dunlap competition, both the Knox and the Dunlap businesses declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Suddenly, at blackest midnight, wily General Liu made an unexpected sortie from Ninghaichow, fell upon and routed the besieging army of 25,000 men. and advanced straight upon Chefoo. Seemingly Marshal Chang had left the siege to be maintained by subordinates. When they informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Despair in Dairen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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