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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Behind the bars of Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Born. A son, the firstborn, to Governor and Mrs. Dan Moody of Austin, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Texas. Red haired, dry-minded re-elected Governor Dan Moody of Texas, whose state voted for Hoover, made a post-election statement blaming the "alcoholism" of Democratic National Chairman John J. Raskob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Governors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Much Love | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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