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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Storyteller: Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant. Accounts varied as to whether the encounter took place 16 or 26 miles off New York. In either case international complications seemed likely-more serious perhaps than those resulting from the sinking of the Canadian rumrunner I'm Alone last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Two Stories | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Opium Ships. Generals Couzens of Michigan and Robinson of Arkansas suddenly moved to insert a provision in the tariff bill making the owners as well as the skippers of ships subject to fine for bringing illicit opium to the U. S. As they opened fire, Republicans and Democrats alike turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Assault | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

It has been often pointed out that Ina Claire is one of the few Follies girls to make and keep, a reputation in the serious theatre. Unlike the numerous slightly or violently dowdy ladies whose one claim to distinction after youth has. passed is that they, were once members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Hold the Sea! | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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