Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ocean-going liquor steamships, among them the Shawnee, shelled by a Revenue Cutter last month (TIME, Sept. 30); also, hundreds of thousands of dollars for "protection." In a nearby cottage a radio was spluttering instructions to liquor transports off shore. As the raiders seized the operator, a Federal radioman took the key, sent luring messages to the transports. Long had the raiding radioman practiced the syndicate's secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition...
...lived in Burlington and was in the University of Vermont, where I also graduated a few years later; I knew his brothers who were good fellows, but John Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after the stand he took in the Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state...
...constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks a Minnesota residence. 2) Short, smiling Harold Knutson who took the Lindbergh seat a dozen years ago is firmly entrenched in the Republican organization of the House where he serves Speaker Longworth as whip (chief aide-de-camp) and from which he has no desire to be dislodged even by Hero No. 1 of the U. S. 3) Lindbergh Sr. made...
Last week, one George R. Clark of Cynwyd, Pa., Harvard sophomore, sat down on the steps of Harvard's new Fogg Museum, took off his shoes, proceeded to bathe his feet. Spying a Chinese student about to enter the museum, he arose and shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he tossed the frightened Oriental down the steps. At a group of Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each...
Marie Mattingly Meloney, Editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work...