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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When intermittent storms did come, they were destructive. In Connecticut two million dollars worth of broad-leaf tobacco was shredded to ruin by a terrific hail storm. Sudden cloudbursts in Iowa in undated crops, swept away roads and bridges, delayed trains...
...two guards and two other prisoners the Ford wheeled over the 40 miles to the State Farm. His one rheumy eye (the other, albino, is blind) for the first time saw automobiles, a steamshovel, a road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...Huston, tall, lean, with slate-blue eyes and tight lips, claimed credit for first breaking the Solid South, because, with his help, Harding carried Tennessee in 1920. Under Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow...
Last month at Tecumseh, Okla., a U. S. dry agent prepared to raid a farm. With him went one Jeff Harris, private citizen with no official standing except his dry zeal. During the raid Citizen Harris killed two citizen farmers (TIME, July 15). The State of Oklahoma indicted him for murder...
John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Reverently the financier turned the crackly pages, gravely he viewed an inset miniature of Sir Geoffrey with two ladies. Presently he laid the Psalter down, said that it ought not leave England...