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In TIME, July 25, in the article of "Finger" in Miscellany there are four untrue statements: 1) I did not have any playmates. 2) The post was already uprooted. 3) I took myself and post to my mother. 4) Police pulled my finger out. You never can believe everything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

In Washington, D. C., one Joe McHale, 7, stuck his finger in a knothole, could not withdraw it. His playmates uprooted the post, took Joe. finger, post to Joe's mother. Police and firemen whittled the post away.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sandglasses | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Dr. & Mrs. William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dutch Take Holland | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

*Last South Carolina tornado, that of 1930, is recalled by Negroes as the ''chainaberry" storm." Reason: many a chinaberry tree, its close-twigged top offering purchase to the wind, was uprooted and whirled aloft over the country-side.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: West Wind | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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