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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith v. White. In Kansas, Editor William Allen White of 'the Emporia Gazette exercised his pen and his tongue to tell Kansans exactly how many times Nominee Smith had voted in the interests of the saloon, the gambling den, the bawdy house. Nominee Smith quickly recognized Editor White's source of information to be one Rev. O. R. Miller, a pamphleteer whom the Nominee denounced as "a parasite living on the people of the State of New York ... an 18-carat professional faker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Brown Derby | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Maria Vérone, Présidente de la Ligue Francaise pour le Droit des Femmes, intimated that spying on and gossiping about the morals of Senators would be stopped, in each individual case, as soon as the terrorized victim turns feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Senators Terrorized | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...King Alexander of Greece, had he not died sensationally of a monkey bite. Today her eldest son, the deposed King George II of Greece, is a charming though impecunious guest at the Rumanian and British Courts, being especially favored by his royal & imperial second cousin once removed, George V...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Other Grandmama | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Prince George, fourth son of Britain's George V, was assigned to the war boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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