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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Out of his office into the yelling mob strolled towering Warden Davis. Above the heads of the rioting convicts his face was grey and grim. They could see he was unarmed, but they also saw he was unafraid. As he shouldered his way forward the yard fell quiet. The convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barehanded | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

The armed convicts looked at him in awe. He seemed big enough to subdue them all. They dropped their weapons, turned away, slowly moved back to their cells. One convict was dead, two guards, a deputy warden and two convicts injured. Two of the convicts, life termers, faced death if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barehanded | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

In the quarterfinals, four fair-haired young players played four black-haired ones. Three of the fair-haireds?Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., John Hope Doeg and George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jubilee | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Other men have worked with the same hormone?Professor Julius Moses Rogoff of Western Reserve University; Dr. Wilbur Willis Swingle & Joseph John Pfiffner of Princeton, Long Island Biological Laboratories, Parke, Davis & Co. and indirectly Mayo Clinic (TIME, June 22); Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey & John Davis Humber of San Francisco and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Press Rescue | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Harry Phillips Davis. 63. "father of radio telephone broadcasting.'' founder of station KDKA in Pittsburgh which sent out the Harding-Cox election returns in 1920 in the world's first public broadcast: board chairman of National Broadcasting Co. since its founding, vice president of Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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