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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Senators thought they had heard the final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As the Capitol's double doors closed on his flapping broadcloth coat tails, they believed that his creamy vest, his lush black tie, his florid face and droning voice had passed forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Heffle | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...generations of heelers. Downstairs also are business offices. On staggered levels off the stairs (to save hall space) are editors' rooms and the morgue. Upstairs is a library dominated by Painter Donald M. Campbell Jr.'s portrait of Briton Hadden as he looked in action (see cut)-coat off, green visor on, big red TIME pencil firmly grasped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O. C. D. Housed | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Students at St. John's wore uniforms until 1826; black hat, blue coat, trousers grey in winter, white in summer. They took military training until a few years ago, when it was abolished by Lieut.-Colonel Enoch Barton Garey, only military head St. John's ever had. Lieut-Colonel Garey resigned in 1929. Douglas Gordon became acting president last May. Since then he has introduced partial substitution of theses for course examinations, tutorial conferences and individual reading for classroom work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Youngest at Third Oldest | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...dreaded white men's hospital. But the white doctor's loving care of dying Fah-li opens Ko-sen's eyes, gives them a new slant on life. Home he goes, begging food & clothing by the way. When he arrives, he is clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple shoes. "What I am no one would know and I do not know myself," says the motley boy. One thing only does he know?that the spirit of the doctor who cared for his dying friend is good, that in that new virtuous direction lies China's liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Eyes, New Slant | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...very little of that. Broadway took the Fakirs to its bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs Ball It got so tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered the chandeliers in the Hotel Astor; next year the Fakirs rolled table tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fakirs Resurrected | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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