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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*In the course of a series of 13 articles on vice in Minneapolis, The Saturday Press said that Attorney Olson was either blind to conditions or had a motive for not prosecuting.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Customarily Scandalous | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Prosperous and slender, with light hair, big eyes, the hollow cheeks common to runners and the round skull common to Poles, Petkiewicz had journeyed over at his own expense. Runners who are being paid for by some club may only compete for 21 days, but Petkiewicz may stay as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Petkiewicz | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Stock Woe | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

In Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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