Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama. Governor-elect Bibb Graves shares the office of Governor William W. Brandon, famed poker player with a faithful Negro servant (TIME, Dec. 6), for the 20 days preceding the inauguration on Jan. 17. They both wish to watch the legislature's special session. Never before has Alabama had sharing Governors...
Frontier Seizure. Mrs. Hallie F. Flanagan, Associate Professor at Vassar, Director of the Vassar Experimental Theatre, arrived at Reval, Esthonia, last week, from a six weeks' visit in Russia. She reported that every courtesy was shown her at Leningrad where a special performance of the Ballet Russe was given in her honor...
...Route to Washington Prince Chichibu's special halted at Baltimore and His Imperial Highness stepped upon the platform as another special rolled in bound for Trenton, N. J. Therein a lean-faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman went on reading, and the tall prince waited. Then, since loutish railwaymen failed to tell the President of the U. S. that Prince Chichibu waited, the presidential special coasted through Baltimore, gathered speed and vanished, while the President read on, oblivious...
Last week the New York Times, expense notwithstanding, began to print a special limited edition daily on 100% rag paper, advertisements, obituaries, rotogravure and all - for the benefit of file-keepers. Considering the completeness and authority of the Times and the aid to future historians promised by its new edition, friends of the Times were more than ever inclined to call it, with unwonted accuracy, "grand...
...resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved...