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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later in the afternoon Citizen Coolidge called again at the White House, this time to convey to Mrs. Hoover "the message of love and good wishes Mrs. Coolidge sent." That night, a thoroughly contented man, he took a train back to his Northampton retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Public Character | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...days later the mysterious underworld "grapevine" had carried news of Dannemora's riot to the state prison in Auburn. Unlike Dannemora this institution?with convict self-government and liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dannemora, Auburn | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Rescue | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Correspondents, waked out of Christmastime daydreams, rushed to their typewriters. In dull news season, Congressman Upshaw made many a first page next morning. A few days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporter Upshaw | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors later to the brew house, peered cautiously into a great copper vat half filled with a fermenting mass of brown syrupy malt, yellow flaky hops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince's Brew | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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