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...sturdy minions of the law would quite promptly and forcibly throw us in the Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts in that direction, I ponder on these things, and am impelled to mentally emit a Bronx Cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Duke was asked to define swing, if he could. He didn't ponder very long over his reply. "Swing is an emotional element that happens after the music has stopped," he observed, "and it happens in both the audience and in the players." The Duke stopped speaking for a moment and shook his head sadly, "They's a lot of people who don't know anything about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Ellington Loves His Music, Likes Delius, Dislikes Jazz Critics, Deplores Some People's Ignorance of Swing | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...does a thriving trade in aluminum limbs, has branches as far away as Argentina. He irks his confreres by being flamboyant, stealing publicity from the convention. This year, to circumvent him, the convention appointed a publicity committee. But, while the more serious minded of the delegates sat down to ponder such questions as whether they were professionals or business men, and how to improve their rather strained relations with surgeons, Mr. Davies again stole the show by introducing a 14-year-old airedale named Paul who has an aluminum rear leg which allows him to run, jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Peg Legs | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Two for Florida | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Their bodies were found next morning- near the main highway, the one to Jack-sonville-five miles out. "THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL NEGROES WHO HARM WHITE PEOPLE," was one epitaph inscribed on a piece of cardboard beside the bullet-ridden Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Two for Florida | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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