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...train entered the outskirts of Vera Cruz, I saw two Mexican secret service men across the aisle watching my bunk. . . . I headed for the rear in my underwear as though I was going to wash. Then I slipped from the train and dressed under a box car. When I reached the American consulate I left my maps and went out to cable Mrs. Butler I was safe. . . . I learned later that they had spent two weeks dragging the bay as they felt sure I had fallen overboard. But I was restored to the Navy list and that ended that little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Butler to Grocers | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...because he couldn't keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying a bunk in a joss house...

Author: By B. O.c., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

...once more in his amazing extra-legal career. He admitted that he weighed 235 Ib. but protested: "I'll sweat it off this summer." As he entered Chicago's Federal Court, onlookers were surprised at the absence of a bodyguard. -'Much of this talk about my guards is bunk. Most of them are my guests," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: For Capone: Six Months | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...were they to point out that by putting 35,000,000 bu. on the already depressed European wheat market the U. S. would be doing the very thing about which it had complained most bitterly against Soviet Russia. Resentful of this foreign criticism, Farm Board Chairman Legge retorted: "Sheer bunk and Bolshevik! No comparison! Russian wheat was sold at prices far below world prices but wheat from the U. S. will not be sold for less than the prevailing world price." He intimated that the Farm Board would get better than world prices for its wheat because of its high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: To Clear The Ports | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Rogers hops a plane and does a great thing for the Red Cross; Newshawk Brisbane rides a soft and safe Pullman and tells the world what he sees from the car window and it's the same old bunk he has been handing out for the past ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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