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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Gendarmes saluted. Out stepped His Royal Highness Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, his sleek hair shining like patent leather, medals gleaming, a pale blue sash across the front of his grey-green silver epauletted uniform. A band struck up the Italian royal hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Heir of Italy | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...naked girl with sleek black hair against a bright halo, riding one of three large white camels beneath a great swirl of checkered cloth and amid a riotous procession of companions, awaits the inspection, through lorgnette and opera glass, of the first families of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Kovno, Lithuania, a gentleman disappeared. The local soviet announced a reward "for the finding of the corpse of Judge Dmitri Petrovitch, believed to have been drowned in the Neva. Height, six feet; hair, black; eyes, brown; special identification: he stutters...

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

...Caraway and Blaine. When he attempted to speak in self-defense, Senator Walsh jerked him up with: "The trouble you're in now is due to the fact that you talk too much." He writhed in his chair and his cheeks were crimson in contrast to his white hair as the investigators spoke of "falsification" and "serving two masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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