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Illinois. Louis Emmerson, Illinois' new Governor, is a patient, Saturnine gentleman whom the newspapers once named "lopeared Lou." He served in the Cabinet of discredited Governor Len Small without losing caste.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Governors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

The better to study enigmatic reptile nature, the Sahib kept a cobra under glass, until he found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great God Cobra | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Not that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stout fella | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

purse-proud caste

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keynotes | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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