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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explained Emanuel Koveleskie, who represents this veteran union with the American Federation of Labor: "The old-time saloon bartenders still are tending bars, but as soft drink and soda jerkers, so in the interest of accuracy we are changing the name. In New York we still call them bartenders' unions. In Missouri they are beverage dispensers' unions. In such states as Kansas we don't even have any organization any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beverage Dispenses | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Returned to Florida in chains, piratical Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D. Clayton to "be hanged by the neck until dead-dead-dead." Vainly did Alderman carry his case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., to President Hoover for clemency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Hangar Hanging | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Politics is "the greatest handicap in the enforcement of Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...name was a bitter surprise to the Slovene part of Jugoslavia. It had been promised that Queen Marie's third son would bear a Slovene name (TIME, Aug. 19). Andrew, even when spelled Andreja, is not Slovene but Greek. St. Andrew is the Patron Saint of the Karageorgevitch family, ruling house of Jugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Andreja | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Cumana, Venezuela, last week, citizens smoked their evening cigarets along the water front, striving for a breath of cool air. A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook. Small boats were put out, rowed ashore. Boxes and crates were landed on the beach. From Cumana's fort an officer watched for a few minutes till he saw the fat barrel of a machine gun lifted out of a crate. Then hastily he threw away his cigaret, sounded the alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Falke Filibuster | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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