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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable richness and proportions for the rest of their days. In the present case, the President will be remembered as the taciturn little man whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Family | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Gangs. Judge Edwin 0. Lewis of Quarter Sessions Court charged the Grand Jury. With District Attorney John Monaghan, he started an investigation of the crimes.* They learned of three Philadelphia liquor gangs: 1) the pioneer, potent Duffys; 2) the antagonistic O'Leary's; 3) the American Blackies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Action. The Grand Jury guarded its findings, acted with deliberation. Its first act was to have Charles C. Beckman, Captain of Detectives, suspended and ordered for trial before the Civil Service Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Florence E. S. Knapp, first woman ever elected to public office by statewide vote in New York, was last week sentenced to 30 days in the Albany County Jail. Her crime was grand larceny. In addition, her judge said that she had "persistently endeavored to defeat the ends of justice, and to carry out her purpose she was guilty not only of perjury but of subornation of perjury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disgrace, Ruin | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Michigan, Republican Governor Fred W. Green acquired a majority of more than 216,000 votes over George W. Welsh of Grand Rapids and was renominated. Democrats also nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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