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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1900, General Butler has fought in nine countries, won many medals. Grizzled Marine campaigners recite many a yarn of his personal bravery. Philadelphia politicians recall with horror the year (1924-25) when, as Director of Public Safety, he endeavored to "mop up" his home town, where he was raised, like Herbert Hoover, in a Quaker family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Youngest Major-General | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...back in years as 1888 or '89 I, then a teacher in a public school in a small New York town (Bernhard's Bay) near my home town, became interested in this subject, and when my school of two rooms was polled it was learned that the children, to a soul, voted for the columbine. Since then at different times, I have endeavored to interest people in this subject of the columbine as a national flower; and just happening to read the May Nature magazine, I discovered that the subject of a national flower is being brought forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Vincent Pecha, Czech railway ticket-agent, was making a comfortable meal of fried veal and beer in the station restaurant at Hidas Németi, Hungarian frontier town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Again, Spies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...This story opens on the bank of the Verdigris River in the good old Indian Territory, four miles east of a town called Oologah, and twelve miles north of a town called Claremore-best Radium water in the World. The plot of the story is a pain in the stomach. The stomach was located amidships of a youth who was prowling up, down, in and across said Verdigris River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stomach Ache | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...forsook the projected match for an infinitely worthier match. To the eternal glory of her family and the Manchu race, Ye-Ho-No-La became one of the 30 concubines attending the young Emperor of China. But the latter was a degenerate. His energy was spent in painting the town violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce the Emperor to condescend enough to let her bear him an heir. A son she bore and not only covered herself with glory but became as well the famed Dowager Empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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