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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life. This man's premature demise was brought on himself by his constant refusal to hear his master's voice. . . . Let us all take a damn fine drink now as we lower John to his final resting place in oblivion. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fatal Indiscretion | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Maiden Voyage. The Roma, new ornate, oil-burning, 33,000-ton queen ship of the Navigazione Generate Italiana docked in New York harbor last week after its maiden voyage from Genoa and Naples. She outrode a two-day storm without damage. But poor plumbing let cabins be flooded with tap water. The defects will be remedied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...when he was a child and lived to command a regiment in the Revolution. Asa Griggs Candler, born too late for Indians and Redcoats, began his business career in the drugstore of Best & Kirkpatrick in Carters- ville. Ga. He had almost no money. His family was indifferent to money. Let a man be honest-shrewdness was unnecessary. It was about 1887 that he sold in his store (he had started a little dispensary of his own in Atlanta) a few quarts of some stuff invented by a certain Dr. Pemberton, and called Coca-Cola. Various people had owned and controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coca-Cola Candler | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...let's reflect upon the Things that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Poem of 1718 by Unknown Author Describes Revels of Old-Time Seniors at Commencement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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