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...President Hoover and Vice President Curtis travelled from Washington to Cincinnati and back on two special trains. Custom forbids their riding together lest a fatal disaster overtake the nation's two chief executives simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of a Speaker | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Anxiety continued last week lest St. Gandhi, when he calls upon King George and Queen Mary in London next summer, should appear, as one tactful correspondent put the matter last week, in his ''gossamer loin cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gossamer | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Fred Burke, "the most dangerous man alive" in the eyes of the Federal Government and police of 18 states, who had trailed him futilely for four years, captured by country detectives. So incredible did it seem to Burke that he begged the officers to show their badges, terrified lest rival gunmen had come to do away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Worst Man | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Hall. Chief qualifications of Mr. Grain for his job were that he had a reputation for austerity on the bench, was a Tammany sachem, had been a jobholder for 33 of his 70 years and was a prominent Episcopalian. It is Tammany precedent to nominate a Protestant district attorney lest the ticket be too topheavy with Roman Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Zion City consists mostly of old frame houses, although Dr. Voliva's hilltop, gabled mansion is a superior building with a gaudy roof. The streets are narrow, mostly unpaved and potholed. Visiting motorists know well they must not curse at bumps lest a Zion City officer arrest them. Huge signs prohibit smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits of a Prophet | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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