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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years it has been held by the Lane family who are now forced to let it go at auction, with its Georgian manor house, its 13 farms, its 27 houses, its oak inn and its ghost of a lady upon a white horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Auction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...such information as confidential despite newsgatherers' arguments that the distinction of talking to London on the first day would be "a great ad" for anyone. It became known through other sources, however, that President Coolidge and King George did not converse. Publisher Ochs of the New York Times let it be known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eerie Voice | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Record woman's insurance policy ($3,250,000) has been written in Cincinnati for Mrs. Henry C. Yeiser Jr., daughter of the late Julius Fleischmann. It is as trust fund to insure the fortune inherited from her father. Union Central Life Insurance Co. was underwriter; will let out major portion to twelve other companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...that's all over now. When he begins to pick on the Mexicans I get angry. I've known Mexicans and Mexicans and they've all been good fellows. Let them alone to fight their own battles, I say. What if they do hurt our oil interests? I can use a street car. I don't have to use a taxi all the time...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...amusing in the reflection that the Free Thinkers by their recent action put themselves on the same side of the fence as the Tennessee fundamentalists. Their president and Dr. John Roach Straton are not so much on opposite poles as their labels imply. Neither is content to live and let live. Both lake the same position in attempting to exploit justice to carry out their convictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS FREEDOM | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

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