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...rounded up Congressman Nixon, drove to Maryland, found Chambers in the cowbarn at his farm, finishing the evening milking. They bluntly accused him of withholding evidence from the congressional committee. After a long moment of silence Chambers admitted that they were right. Did he have more information? He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Dusty Bomb | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Russia smuggled across to Finns in Finland last week, the Christmas campaign in Ingria began by seizing a total of nine Lutheran churches and arresting the Lutheran clergy. At Ranpyva the former Lutheran church had become a State cowbarn last week. At Retykyla enthusiastic Godless comrades organized a Godless Seminary, drummed up Finnish peasants who glumly took their places as students, will emerge after a course in Godlessness as "Godless Apostles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Christmas Spirit | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five-gallon Stetson hat. made a loud, fiery speech to 10,000 farmers in behalf of a producers' strike. In cowbarn language he proposed a Farmers Holiday Association to execute the strike. He would organize and head it-at $5 per day, to be paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Stomach Strike | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Rhode Island State College at Kingston, R. I. has 612 students and 49 professors. Also, it owns a herd of 40 fine cows. For the last 39 years, professors who wished milk were obliged to go to the cowbarn with a can and cart it home as best they could. Last week it was announced that milk will hereafter be bottled and delivered to faculty members. Cost: 12? the quart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progress | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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