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...Since Oct. i he had doubled his original contribution of $50,000. In addition, at a party benefit auction last week, Mr. Raskob paid $10,000 for a fine-printed copy of the Smith acceptance speech-a gift for Mrs. Smith. Presumably it is impossible for Chairman Raskob to distinguish between what would be his normal personal expenses and the miscellaneous outlay that he must make personally in the course of running the campaign. Perhaps he has thus informally contributed more than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Money | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Murphy and Dube)--You will learn to distinguish between them. Dube can get you out of a tight hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...House, because, though it had been agreed that Burr was the Vice Presidential candidate, no distinction was provided for in the balloting. The 12th Amendment, passed in 1803, ratified in 1804, required the members of the Electoral College (or of the House if the election went there) to distinguish their choices for President and Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: College | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

This event was in some ways superior to its white counterpart. The couples were less charming, it is true, and in the gloomy hall it was hard to distinguish their faces. Yet they danced with tremendous enjoyment, at the end of the eleventh day. At the end of the twelfth, one team married, in a ceremony that was held on the dance floor. The colored preacher, the Rev. S. W. Wigfall, solemn and embarrassed, a good man if somewhat stupid, was grossly insulted by laughter throughout his reading of the service. Bernard Paul, aquiline, and Amelia Hallbach, spade-faced, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...three false fiery girls. He was clutching at them but his hands were empty, the nymphs were laughing and the man was about to sink down in the bog. The background of the picture was mostly the entrance to a large sewer in which it was possible to distinguish rats jumping around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Rome | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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