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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout the South to please Dry and anti-Catholic Democrats-R. T. Timothy, Negro Republican, and Major E. E. Winters, White Republican, both of Montgomery, Ala. Said Major Winters: "I cast my first vote for Abraham Lincoln 64 years ago and have been voting the Republican ticket early and often ever since, but this is more than even a 'hardened sinner' like me can stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Reasons | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...friends is catholic. He is a born promoter, especially of versatile night clubs and small-time prize fights. He has at least $1,000,000 and likes to surround himself with strong-armed young men. The young men are pugilists professionally and "Boo Boo's" boxing stable has often contained upwards of 100 likely bullies. He sends them from city to city to meet other boxers and he usually guesses or knows how each match will come out. Successful fight betting has been not the least source of the Hoff fortune. The Hoff "mob" brings him much news from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Died. Stephen A. Connell, 55, secret service man who saved President Theodore Roosevelt from an attack by a crazed farmer at the Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home; of heart disease; at St. Louis, Mo. He used to wrestle and box with President Roosevelt, often said, "Teddy could sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Busier Faculties | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...some future day succeeding the father. Last week reporters stopped him for an interview. He gave it: "I have been impressed, when I walked into the offices of corporations at Boston, Schenectady, Chicago and New York of the importance assumed by the private secretary of the chief executive. Often I have mistaken the secretary for the president of the corporation. His suavity and pomposity have forced from me the most excessive politeness, whereas when I met the president I have been induced to give him only perfunctory attention, as if he were a person of no importance. The American private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Kotaro Wakao's Fun | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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