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...Raleigh, N. C., a high fly floated toward Convict Dallas Brown, playing outfield in the prison nine. Convict Brown sighted the fly, ran back, back, back, and away from prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dummy | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper at a cost of $50.000 by the Catholic Church Extension Society, ablest of Catholic home mission organizations. Eight years ago it was lent, later given to Bishop William Joseph Hafey of Raleigh, N. C. He in turn presented it to the "Mission Band'' headed by Father Murphy. Because only 9,000 of North Carolina's 3,000,000 population are Roman Catholics, Father Murphy takes his car into many a section where a priest has never before been seen. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: ST. PETER | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...grateful to the Republicans for all of this." As the newshawks gaped, his pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe in. The rites of house-warming were later transferred to the tenth floor of the Raleigh Hotel across the street-where the number of the guests consuming scotch and soda, rye and bourbon, cocktails and sandwiches, mysteriously doubled. In Manhattan two days later the Postmaster General had another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Proud Pleasures | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...took six minutes one afternoon last week for the warden of the North Carolina State Penitentiary at Raleigh to receive the commitment papers of burly Luke Lea and his tall, high-strung son Luke Jr., to change their names to Nos. 29,409 and 29,408, to make them Class B prisoners in vertically striped suits and to clank barred doors on their still jaunty backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leas to Jail | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...where Luke Sr. fancied himself as "a maker of Governors," across the State avoiding Knoxville, where they had once owned the Journal, up the Smoky Mountains to Asheville, N. C., where they had defrauded defunct Central Bank & Trust Co. of $1,300,000, and down the other side to Raleigh and to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leas to Jail | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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