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...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...achieve the perfection which he can never much more nearly approximate than he does now, he might have envisaged himself as a chubby and more cheerful old fellow, winning the U. S. Senior Golf Championship. One such, Charles H. Walker. 61, last week won this tournament at Rye, N. Y., with a score of 158 for 36 holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amateur Clubmen | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Wheat. Renick William Dunlap, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, warned farmers not to sell their wheat crop too hastily. The northern hemisphere is raising 2,873,000 bushels of wheat this fall. This is a trifle more than last year. But the world's rye crop is 92,000,000 bushels less than last year; the potato crop will be less; Russia probably will have no wheat to export; people are demanding more wheat (as flour) than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Noticed by a smart observer for the Associated Press, which has eyes even in remote Kabul, was a curious device emblazoned on the red or "independence" stripe. Two sheaths of rye encircle a chain of golden mountains over which rise the nation's Star and the royal Sun. Thus is symbolized the popular title of King Amanullah, who is known to millions of his subjects simply as "The Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red for Independence! | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...court where he dodged under a chair and remained hidden for 15 minutes. When hauled out Max Sussar claimed that he was "only the lookout" for his gang. Twisting his pitiful face into a look of rage, he sat in a chair, swinging his let's. "I like rye whiskey and women," he told reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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