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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lingle & Co. (cont.) | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...Isaac is to the Jews, so Ishmael is to the Mohammedans, whose culture is mainly Arabian. Many of Isaac's traditions Moslems apply to Ishmael, including Abraham's miraculously finding a ram to sacrifice instead of Isaac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Festival of Sacrifice | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...salt making demonstrations spread to other parts of India, more than 80 law-breakers were arrested, including the Mahatma's son Ram Das Gandhi. Those first brought to trial were fined up to $182 or six months in jail. A typical stroke of British statecraft was an announcement by a spokesman for the British Government that: "The Government considers Mr. Gandhi's actions merely symbolical, and not an actual violation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi at Dandi | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Teller, a neat village of ten frame buildings, a group of flannel-shirted, khaki-trousered flyers in fur parkas and mukluks, stomped around in helpless patience last week. What planes they had, light open ones, could not ram through the foggy wind wall. But able help was en route. The Coast Guard cutter Chelan landed three Fairchild cabin planes and Canadian crews at Seward, whence they were shipped by rail to Fairbanks. There the Canadians assembled their planes and flew them towards Teller. They undoubtedly can jump the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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