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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returned to Florida in chains, piratical Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Hangar Hanging | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Flowers, newsmen and a hard job followed on the heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Who shot the arrow that killed the cock-robin strike of Actors' Equity in Hollywood? "I" admits Actress Ethel Barrymore. "Ethel Barrymore!" cries President Frank Gillmore of Equity. The evening after President Gillmore's meeting at which Equity members in Hollywood adopted a resolution requiring cinema producers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlucky Strike | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Devil People? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago Banker T. V. Soong told his brother-in-law President Chiang Kai-shek that China's huge military establishment must be curtailed. Otherwise, he said, not even the House of Soong could keep China's treasury from going bankrupt. When President Chiang-onetime field marshal and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Scores | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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