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At the beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dream Machine RADIO DAYS Directed and Written by Woody Allen | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Chinghai province, where he has been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow. They pitched their white tents and grazed their horses on the city's airfield, took over the guard of public buildings. Ma was making sure that Nationalist troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ma v. Marx | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Careening down Waterloo Road to the Stockton Food Products Co. came a truckful of spinach. As it slowed to enter the gates, strikers leaped upon it, tore off ropes, tossed crates of spinach into the street. Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spinach & Kings | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

While four bedraggled citizens stood waiting at 7:30 New Year's morning to get a look at the 31st U. S. President, an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500 swarmed into Washington's central post office to buy likenesses of the first U. S. President. By nightfall over 40,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Twelve Washingtons | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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