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Foreign Office issued a communiqué, directing the police to protect Frenchmen at all costs, regardless of color, and threatening offensive tourists with expulsion if they tried to import Jim Crow tactics. France needs the loyalty of her colored colonies even more than she needs the cash of American tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jacques Corbeau | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Channel Swim | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hottest | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Died. Shuh-shee-ahsh, 68, also known as Curley, a Crow Indian scout, the sole survivor of the Custer massacre, of cancer of the liver, at the Crow Agency, Mont. He was buried on the Custer Battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...overcame then? Who found, of a fortunate Saturday, that that night they should repeat their performances for fame and a gleaming prize? One from Manhattan?the East-West Players in The Little Stone House, by George Calderon. They of White Plains who put their trust in The Crow's Nest, by William Manly. And the Garden Players of Forest Hills in Robert Courtney's The Clock. These were the victors three, where all strove with honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Groups | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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