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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congratulations on exposing fake oath falsely attributed to Knights of Columbus. (I am a Baptist son of a Baptist minister.) TIME brings to the dark, bigoted Middle West facts other publications fail to print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Connecticut. Registration is permanent so long as the voter does not fail to vote. The registrars will meet Oct. 9 to hear applications and accept new names...

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

...lancet covered with a deadly poison; whether she would have the courage or the opportunity to administer without detection a tiny scratch upon the hands of her distinguished partners, she did not know. However, her companions carried six-shooting, surer weapons in the event that she should fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...first reading, this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tires | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Having surveyed this unhappy scroll, only the most rabid and unfastidious fundamentalists could be proud of Gov. Smith's adversary. Honest churchmen were mortified that such a man should share their feelings, much more that he should have undertaken to voice them. They could not fail to see more evidences of vice in the clergyman's record than in the candidate's and they were forced to acknowledge a characterization of their lamentable spokesman which was offered by the Chicago Tribune ". . . narrow-minded, pompous bigot . . . gluttonous for printer's ink, publicity and the front page. . . . Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blatant Straton | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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