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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in breeding, birth and life is Roosevelt in everything but name. His mother was Corinne Roosevelt; he married Helen Roosevelt. Following best Roosevelt traditions, he graduated from Harvard, was elected to the New York Legislature (Senator, 1916-18, 1920-24), fought for the U. S. in the World War as First Lieutenant of Field Artillery. At the opening of the Spanish-American War, his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy; he soon found the job too tame and resigned to lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: 40,000 Seamen | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

What Mary Means to Catholics: As Mary-veneration grew, from the 6th Century on, Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Maria | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Fifty-seven men of the Public Service company took 15-minute shifts at the artificial respiration of Albert Frick. Up and down their arms went. The patient's father and mother were waiting outside the hospital room, praying that the 57 men would save the life of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand Breathing | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Answers to No. 3 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Noose?Melodrama with many tears, about a boy who shot for Mother's honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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