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Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic directors of a charity fund of between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000 described in the will of the late Conrad Hubert, flashlight manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

When Henry Ford went to Manhattan last week to greet Son Edsel Ford, and his family, arriving from Europe on the Berengaria, a bottle of flashlight powder exploded close by the pier, injured nine persons. No Ford was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Orleans, a landlady rented her sunniest room to Edward White, "explorer." Wakened the first night by creaking boards and roving flashlight, she sat up, saw the new roomer, asked what he was doing. Said he: "Exploring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rabbits | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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