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One night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tom & Huck | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Communists charge that he was forcibly removed at Phoenix, and after a severe beating, taken to the Phoenix jail. When their posses were about to locate him, he was transferred to Nogales on the border. A wire from the Chief of Police of Nogales to Federal Officers in Washington. D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas-For-President Club Telegraphs for Statement From Authorities on Jailing of Gitlow-Foul Play is Suspected | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Bound | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

"There is little doubt that the promise of being allowed unlimited cuts, provided he makes grades of such a standard as to warrant his being placed on the preferred list provides an incentive for the student to do better scholastic work. It offers an immediate reward for special effort and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGES APPROVE HARVARD CUT RULE | 1/20/1926 | See Source »

KINDERHOOK, N. Y., July 10.-Sought by state troops, Boy Scouts and posses of citizens since his disappearance Wednesday, James Wynkop Roney, nine-year-old son of Garner P. Roney, an assistant city editor of The Herald Tribune, was found drowned in Kinderhook Creek here today.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pathos | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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