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...mechanical difficulties in the way of changing name and established organization was smoothed out when the following telegram was received from William L. Butcher, Chairman of the Executive Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Campaign At Harvard | 10/3/1924 | See Source »

...inexorable rule of the Army, fit as he is, he must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Defense of Defense Day | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...beginning, Charles Wayland followed his brother. He followed him from Illinois to Nebraska. There he set up a butcher shop in Lincoln. Later he turned to retailing cigars in Omaha. He was there when William Jennings launched out on the Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Brother' | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Peter grew up, cheerful, well-pursed. He had all but completed his education at the famed Bah-Bah University, when he fell in love with the fair Georgina, butcher's daughter. Peter's stern parent forbade the match, threatened to cut him off with but a single pig. To cure him of his passion, it was decided to ship him off to Paris with his tutor and mentor, one Rufus Gabbe, M.A., Ph.D., panegyrist of Bah-Bah philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candide Recrudescens* | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death was a wasting of the body resulting from degeneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pachyderm Post-Mortem | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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