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But Judge Clark decided to raise a kick. And he did, in his legal way. He called the Prohibition Act unconstitutional. Nobody really cares whether or not his argument was water-tight. The fact remains that people agreed with him, and after a while the Prohibition Act was repealed. Then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/19/1941 | See Source »

In Washington to tell a grand jury about his campaign contributions, thin, knife-faced Tycoon Lammot du Pont backed off when cameramen began an encircling movement. Explained Photophobe Du Pont: "One time I received a letter asking for the loan of $15,000 from a fellow who said he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Jefferson is one of the two U. S. Presidents (the other: Lincoln) who did not claim membership in any church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jefferson Edits the Bible | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Attached is a cartoon clipping from this morning's Tampico El Mundo which illustrates the reaction of some Latin Americans to the re-election of President Roosevelt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Thomas H. Eliot of Cambridge, Democrat, 33, replaced baggy, antique Republican Robert Luce, chief of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau. Eliot, handsome, dark, wavy-haired, erudite as his grandfather's Five-Foot-Shelf, once rowed for Harvard, was a Boston Globe reporter, still likes to write Letters To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Faces | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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