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...reformers, and the Ku Klux Klan's fiery crosses burn under the walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined to believe that you are both." Paralyzed, the affair died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabies | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...startling to behold the always opinionated but seldom unsophisticated New York World pitching into "Lampy" (as Harvards call their campus fool) like a Dutch uncle or beard-tweaked rabbi, belaboring the unimportantly obvious. "Now it becomes," said the World, "a painful duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Painful Duty | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...devoted to Lord Northcliffe.... I mothered him. I gave him advice when he needed it, and he gave me leave to pull him up and prevent his making a fool of himself.... I did that several times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Costly Case | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued a conciliatory policy toward Italy, he signed an accord with Rome last year; and now Signor Mussolini and President Zogu of Albania had both double-crossed him. He was a numskull? so raved the press of Belgrade. Down with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: National Crisis | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Married. William T. Graham, 76, onetime President American Can Co.; onetime partner of Daniel G. Reid (tinplate); to Mrs. Mary A. Staats, 57, in Manhattan. Said he: "Perhaps you think I'm an old fool. I'd like to have my own home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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