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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Mrs. B. Leigh Colvin of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union discussed Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet. Said she: "They are not hypocrites." She called them, ''practical politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Who's What | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...LEIGH STEVENSON New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Roosevelts Record | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...English athletes will sail on the S. S. Ascania of the Cunard Line on June 11, arriving in this country about two weeks before the meet. A tentative line up forwarded to the University athletic authorities is a follows: Sprints: B. M. Norton (O); 440-yards dash: R. Leigh Wood (O); 880-yard run: W. C. Went-worth (O), and N. H. Gutteridge (O); One-mile run: C. E. Green (C), and H. S. Townsend (O); Three-mile run: D. M. Wilson (C), and J. M. Humphrey (O): High hurdles: H.G. Harper (O), and I. R. Mann (C); Low Hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER YALE CAPTAIN IS TO COMPETE FOR OXFORD | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...Bumpstead-Leigh. So few playwrights have ever caught the evanescent quality that is the essence of Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske's acting that she is scarcely to be blamed for reviving a play from her past instead of trying to find and create something new. And, everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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