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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...with years of driving the same old route, felt the need of a change. He turned off his prescribed route, went left or right whenever he felt like it, finally just drove in circles. Said he to startled passengers: "You can't get off until I'm ready to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...awarded the Major II in Minor Colors. They are Capt. John L. Harr, Jr. '89 of the golf team, Albert N. Blanchard '39, Frank L. Downey, Jr. '39, Capt. Charles P. Hammond '39, Ralph E. Livingston '39, and Henry W. Riecken, Jr. '39 of the lacrosse team, and George M. Goodwin '39 and Donald H. Gordon '39 of the tennis team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 191 Letter Winners on Spring Minor Sports Teams Are Announced | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Louis M. Clay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 191 Letter Winners on Spring Minor Sports Teams Are Announced | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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