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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purdue's boilermakers kept Michigan in hot water all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Cagle and Murrel had rather hoped to spend the afternoon with blankets around them, but a Davidson team too fast and nervy for the Army understudies kept the first-string backfield busy all the time. Army 23, Davidson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Nonetheless cautious anonymity revealed that the operators took their account books to the conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mail Contracts | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Wise in the ways of Chicago political expediency, Boss Granata had printed and circulated hand bills, calculated to spread ruin throughout the "old-line" camp, swing the mass of unaffiliated voters to his side. The remainder of the handbills were kept at independent headquarters, to be flourished as a fiery cross on election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boss Granata | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...KEPT WOMAN-Vina Delmar-Earcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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