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...measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Madden | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Last week the District Court of Appeals at Lima, Ohio, decided that Killer Remus was sane, ordered him released from the asylum. The majority opinion handed down by Judges Phil M. Crow and Kent W. Hughes said: "We frankly say that if his [Remus's] mental condition was at the time he committed the homicide as it was shown to be at the time of the trial before us, the verdict was a most flagrant and reprehensible outrage of judicial administration which cannot be too strongly condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Remus | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...intelligently expressed facts. I now have the time to devote to other worthwhile reading and yet be fully in formed as to current events. I would like to see your Music department enlarged and amplified, but then we all have our pet obsessions. WALLER CROW Dittlinger-Crow Process Co., New Braunfels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...tragic than a certain basset hound puppy. Last week he sat nuzzling his weak chin into the loose bib of flesh which an arbitrary heredity has draped around his neck. In the kennels, at Huntington, L. I., of Gerald M. Livingston, his forlorn yapping roused to dreary derision a crow in the near woods. Perhaps the basset hound puppy heard a prophecy in the dismal utterances of the black bird; what, he wondered, did the future hold for him, a prince of basset hounds, by Walhampton Andrew (titles: International Champion, English Champion, American Champion), out of Walhampton Dainty? The puppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Sullivan '27, coxswain of the University eight for the past two years assisted by C. H. Pforzheimer '28 coxswain of the 1927 Jayvees will be in charge of the new school. The plan is to have the candidates work in the tank with the regular crow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COXSWAIN SCHOOL WILL BE INITLATED BY CREW COACHES | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

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