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There are too many old pioneers in Arizona who in the early days made their way through cactus and thorn, hunger and thirst, their flintlock rifles ready to repel attack, in order to make Arizona a safe and pleasant place in which to live, for them ever to see Arizona surrender her State rights. While false propaganda has fooled many in the Colorado River fight, and has unwittingly led you into error in the article referred to, yet right must finally triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Morituri | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Burton Thorn Simpson, 58, the rotund, chubby director of the New York State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease at Buffalo, spoke for himself and for Dr. Thomas Parran, State Commissioner of health. Dr. Simpson agreed with the other Easterners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: California v. New York | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Brass Ankle is the finest of the few American tragedies of this theatrical season. For while the author pours forth the deepest sympathy and pity for his doomed characters, hedged with a thorn-row of purest ethnological malice, he is also erecting an inevitable dramatic structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Warren K. Billings, labor agitators who had been prominent in unionizing street railway employes, were convicted of the crime. For the past 15 years liberal and labor organizations have been trying to get them out of prison. Thousands of dollars have been spent in propagandizing their cause, a thorn in the side of every California governor. Precedent is the first play in their behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

TIME will report whether or not its thorn-tenders are wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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