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...crowd of notables that swarmed to shake the Rogers hand appeared Henry Lewis Mencken, eating a big black cigar. "Who's going to be Vice President, Will?" asked he. Reporter Rogers favored Charles Curtis. "The Republicans should not show so much race prejudice," ob served Mr. Mencken. "They had an In dian last time. They ought to get a nig ger this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Show | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...Russians seldom do, add a fourth initial "O," making O.G.P.U. or "Ogpu." This stands for Ob'yedinennoye Gosudarstven-noye Politicheskoye Upravleniye, meaning United State Political Administration. M.G.P.U. is the Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Gay-pay-oo | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Ob wages paid in cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: De Native Scum. . . | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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