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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate last week stood Senator William Edgar Borah, fighting-man from Idaho. The business before the Senate was the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, already signed by some 60 of the world's nations. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Maltreated | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

One night last week some 2,000 citizens of Mississippi watched a fire. The fuel for the fire consisted of a pile of logs, several cans of gasoline, and a Negro. Brightly burned the gasoline, with orange flame, black smoke. Soon the Negro's flesh became hot, reached what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: People v. Shepherd | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Thus ended the case of the People of Mississippi v. Charles Shepherd, Negro. The case began when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: People v. Shepherd | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Mrs. Miller's life sentence, which began some two weeks before the ninth anniversary of U. S. Prohibition, was purely a Prohibition byproduct, inasmuch as her four convictions had all been found on liquor charges. In 1924, in 1925, in 1927, she had served from six days to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: From And After | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

At Rome the swashbuckling soldiers of Pope Pius IV were savagely attacked and soundly defeated by troops of King Vittorio Emanuele I. Momentous, this defeat was suffered in 1870. Ever since the Papacy has been without temporal power, the Pope has remained "The Prisoner of the Vatican." Last week there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Concordat? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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