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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaking his hand until the turn came of Chief Kolchavteewah. For a moment, to Franklin Roosevelt's surprise, it looked as if Kolchavteewah was going to kiss the Presidential hand, but the Redman's lips never actually touched the Roosevelt flesh. Following an old Indian custom, he made a secret sign. Then the tribesmen did a buffalo dance on the lawn, and the President drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Delinquents | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Tall, blonde Muriel Ryan, 24, said she had graduated from an Indiana high school at 15, eloped, gone on the streets after her parents had the marriage annulled. After four years in Indianapolis she moved to New York, soon took up with bookers. It was her custom, said she, to work two weeks, then rest two weeks. "What would a man have to pay to take you to bed?" asked a defense attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...been the custom of the Jubilee in years past, supper will be served at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hudson-Delange Play at '39 Jubilee Tonight | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...care of an ample bodyguard "Copey" arrived on time to find a waiting capacity audience, carefully adjusted the light, as is his custom. Read Kipling's "The Sergeaui and the Pharaoh," extracts from the Book of the Ruth, and the story of the Prodigal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Copey" Reads Kipling, Bible to Fifty Hearers at Union | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

With these increased taxes the British budget balanced, with a minuscule surplus left over. But, as has been his fiscal custom, Chancellor Chamberlain had made no provision for paying anything on Britain's debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Back In Bleak House | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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