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President Hoover's campaign managers expressed delight at the overthrow of a dynasty that for years has been a thorn in the side of regular Republicanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Dynastic Downfall | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Portland, famed for roses,* the American Legion last week plucked a large political thorn and handed it to the country. Convened in its 14th national convention the Legion, as expected, declared for full, immediate, unconditional payment of the Soldier Bonus at a cost of some $2,300,000,000 to the Treasury. Public esteem for the Legion throughout the land instantly, visibly ebbed, changed to alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Portland Thorn | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Railroads. Alfred Pembroke Thorn, counsel for the Association of Railway Executives, takes care of his client before Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Locusts | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross. A sculpture from the time of Charlemagne is surrounded by plants listed in an old herbarium of the period. Most famed plant at Washington Cathedral is the Glastonbury Thorn, grown from a cutting from the British one which is supposed to have grown from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. The British Thorn blooms occasionally on Christmas. The U. S. Thorn, planted 30 years ago, did not bloom until 1918. Said Dean Bratenahl: "Perhaps the blooms have waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For National Purposes | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Long has Dr. Brinkley been a thorn in the side of the A. M. A. More recently he gave Kansas politicians the scare of their lives. Soon after the War he ap peared in the crossroads village of Milford, Kan. and set himself up as a phy sician after obtaining a license by reciprocity from Arkansas. (His Arkansas license had been granted on the strength of a diploma from the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University, since exposed as a "diploma mill.") Dr. Brinkley built a radio station. KFKB, broadcast jazz music interrupted by lectures on rejuvenation. Soon he had transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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