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...Centennial Gate and the Stadium long narrow buses with red lights, electric motors and canvas roofs plied to and fro, silent as lizards. They were crowded. Diplomats, politicians, millionaires, sailors, Negroes, sportsmen went by. Vincent Richards, the tennis player, and his wife, and a raincoat. A huge black preacherman in a woman's straw hat. Mortimer Schiff. Mayor Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marine | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Standing in a dense crowd at Lafayette Mall on the Common, Boston, an untidy-looking man with a bundle of magazines under his arm put a 50¢ piece between his teeth, bit it hard and grinned. In front of him stood a preacherman whom some recognized as Rev. Jason Franklin Chase, Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, guardian of Boston morals. Nearby waited a distinguished gentleman whom some recognized as Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, defender of John Scopes, of the Countess Cathcart. And everybody stared unfavorably at the untidy man with the magazines. He had just committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hatrack | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...wont, that he had seen two holdups on a single morning in Chicago. When the Chicago Evening Post offered him $100 if he could support this assertion (TIME, Sept. 28) many thought that the U. S. would be entertained with one or more demonstration of this preacherman's blatancy. Instead, Dr. Stratton last week submitted written evidence and received the $100, which he will devote to a Fundamentalist charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Justifiably Loud | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman $100 if he could definitely establish the date and location of the crimes he had observed. Replied Dr. Straton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atonement | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...Pulaski, Va., one D. M. Nickels, farmer, preacherman and Bible reader, was offended by the behavior of his right hand. He forthwith laid this member on a chopping block, took a blunt hatchet in his left, hacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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