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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Pure Alloway | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

To point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mother, Tapeworm | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

"In the smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker?men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bank Chains | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Nebraska. In Nebraska last month was born a proposal which, had it occurred in their State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bank Chains | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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