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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such songs as the "International" and the "Red Flag." Leading the procession were red flags and the two banners which read: "On to London, the seat of our trouble" and "We demand bread for our people, justice for the miners." All were stoutly shod and all carried an extra pair of "boots." A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Cook's Army | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

President Coolidge stretched forth his arm to touch the golden lever of the presidential telegraphic instrument. He pressed, and a current of electricity flowed to Manhattan and directly across the Hudson river to Jersey City. At each place, in sight of thousands of crowding spectators, the current caused a pair of great U. S. flags slowly to separate. The Holland Vehicular Tunnel officially became open for inspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holland Tunnel | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...down-in-the-stadium tradition will be lightly tossed aside. I understand that "Ducky" Pond sat lone on at Yale Fence completely ostracized, after he forgot he was in the Stadium and ran 60 yards with a recovered fumble for Yale's only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned the courage of Bunnell, Kline, et Al? (Ed Note--Just who this fellow...

Author: By Jee Forecast, | Title: JOE FORECASTS THWARTED IN PLAN | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bellows Book | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Canadian farmer with a team of horses tugged the wreckage of an airplane out of the St. Lawrence River. In the cockpit were found a watch and a pair of socks. A wing section, 13 feet long, washed up elsewhere. Of the flyers no trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: De Lesseps | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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