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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State William Hale Thompson S of War Rev. Norris of Ft. Worthf S of Treas Will Hays** S of Navy Albert E. Fall S of Int Harry F. Sinclair Atty General Geo. Remus Post M General Dr. Frederick Cooktt S of Com Will Rogers S of Labor Emma Goldman S of Agri H. L. Mencken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ball | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Married. Miss Emma Charlotte Moody, of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of the late Dwight L. Moody; to Dr. Frank Raymond Smith, of Stratford, Conn.; in East Northfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...Medieval "trial by ordeal" was administered to persons of every class, from queens to scullery maids. Thus Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial By Lions | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...this paragraph you also say that while the new Governor is a Republican, the departmental staff "is Democratic to a man." It is Democratic but not "to a man." Mrs. Emma Guy Cromwell is the new State Treasurer, Miss Ella Lewis the new Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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