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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 25 you have published a slanderous story and coupled my name with it, which is absolutely false. I can only conclude that you are thinking of one Pat Smith of Bridgeport, Conn., who has had the audacity to use my name and of whom I know nothing except what the newspapers report. There is absolutely no connection between him and my family, and so far as I know he is not a Gipsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Except in 1912, when Wilson got a plurality of 2,600 over Roosevelt. The Roosevelt vote plus the Taft vote was some 24,000 greater than the Wilson vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskob's Rainbow | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury the old quarrel. Except for a series of cartoons, showing Tammany as a little yegg in a tiger-striped sweater, Mr. Hearst subsequently published nothing very damaging to the Brown Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hearst on Treason | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Mexico. Registration is permanent except for nonvoters. Registry boards and county clerks receive registration until...

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

...rounds of the producers' offices, people sometimes ask him for a formula, a hint of how to know. Jed Harris, like every truly successful producer, has no system. Three of his four most famed productions are full of fast action, two are full of profanity, which proves nothing, except that he knows that people like such things in plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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