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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with more than enough carbon monoxide to cause her death. To the jury box, Mr. Travia's smiling young lawyer rushed, shook hands all around. He, Alfred E. Smith Jr.,* son of New York's famed Governor, Alfred E. Smith, had won his spurs in his first murder case. Democrats who hope to see Governor Smith installed in the White House, saw in his son's success a new and good omen. For most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones,- witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Son | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...thought (surely not seriously) that Protestant life would be more secure in Ireland "if you could hang the Priest of the Parish whenever a murder occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

Headlines telling of wholesale murder and rapine and emphasizing the danger to American womanhood have somehow been concocted from stories which contain little more than accounts of riot, some destruction of property, and the death of one American. The Transcript, after calling attention to Cantonese "insolence" wonders why the U. S. warships have not used their guns on the Nationalists before. All this flaming and rather tawdry blustering is not only shallow but dangerous as well if it is communicated to a State Department which is not particularly noted for solid good sense under the administration of Mr. Kellogg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINOISERIE | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

Wooden Kimono?Insanity, murder, mystery and every other creepy thing...

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

...jail, the "capitalistic bastille," threatened. The great War broke out; on a soap box in the Public Square, Cleveland, Comrade Ruthenberg shouted, "War is mass murder." He was indicted, sentenced to one year in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Ruthenberg | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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