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Word: thompsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week first exercised executive clemency. In 1927, George Herbert Thompson, Washington Blackamoor, murdered his sweetheart. Five days before he was to step into the electric chair, President Hoover commuted his sentence to life imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No More Pests | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Credit for the translation is due Dorothy Thompson, for the drawings to Constantin Aladjalov. The book is dedicated to Sinclair Lewis, "that good American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Americanisatus | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following subjects at the new school: Dr. Machen-New Testament; Dr. Wilson- Old Testament criticism; Semitic philology. Committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Princeton Secession | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

This success resulted partly from the character of the directorate, partly from the executive ability of President Herbert P. Howell and his officers, partly from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Exceptional Bank | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...liquor in a paper and, without coat, without collar, went out to wait on the corner. A car drove up. To the two men in it Mr. Zimman passed his jug. They took it -and then they tried to take Mr. Zimman too. They were Lawrence E. Thompson and Stanley Riegel, U. S. Dry agents. Protested Mr. Zimman: "I'm not a bootlegger. I'm a citizen." They laughed at his sick-friend story. A scuffle started. Mr. Zimman was subdued, arrested, lodged with the Omaha police on a charge of liquor possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sick Friend | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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