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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defense. Governor Jackson, long though he had been faced with the possibility of his indictment, had not until last week answered the widely-circulated charges against him. Last week he declared that he had indeed called on Mr. Mc-Cray for the McDonald appointment, not with cash or immunity in hand but at the request of Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren sect. Bishop Fout last week corroborated this statement so far as he was able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indiana Scandals | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just as the President answered, "None," to a news correspondent who asked if he would add anything to the sentence, "I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Night foremen can become lifesavers only at their own risk, ruled last week Judge Nelson Mc-Vicar of the Pittsburgh Common Pleas Court. His decision saved the Fidelity & Casualty Co. $2,400, lost Mrs. Elsie A. Prettyman (widow of William A. Prettyman) the same amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Life saver | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...June 18, 1926, Mr. Prettyman, night foreman for a contracting company, rescued Anna Nice from drowning in the Alleghany River, was himself drowned. The Workmen's Compensation Board awarded his widow $8 a week for 300 weeks. To court went the Casualty Co. Ruled Judge Mc-Vicar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Life saver | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-Mc-Bride ($2.50). His first novel since the 'War; peasant plutocrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE CREAM | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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