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...Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John Ringling himself was there to turn the buildings over to their new director, Dr. Ludd Myrl Spivey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ringling Day | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled The Spirit of Egypt and, instead of merely running for office, flew for it, to Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Little Egypt | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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