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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They did, at least, in last week's outstanding primary election, in Wisconsin. There, the so-called Progressive Republicans, led by boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, amiable son of a fiery father, won all the important nominations-including the Youngest Senator's renomination-except for the Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck...

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

...receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Soaking in salt solution at least once a day helps cure. Keeping the "feet off hot floors and radiators is good. Ultraviolet light seems to be beneficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ringworm | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Infected persons should boil their towels, socks, gloves and linens for 15 minutes to kill the ringworm organisms. They must avoid infecting others; they should sleep with no one, at least while the disease is active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ringworm | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...tons required each and every two weeks for Mortimer B. Fuller's private ocean, 100 miles from the seashore, are the least of the drains on International Salt's mines and evaporating plants. Next in order of unimportance is the production of table salt. Major uses of salt are found in the curing of hides, manufacture of soap, paper, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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