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Word: vigilantes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rejoicing and Gladness | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: Root Formula | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

"Well, I suspect that those reasons did enter into it," said Senator Borah. "I should hope that if we sign this treaty we would be more vigilant in confining ourselves to actual attack and not sentimental attacks."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Maltreated | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

The Board, either stupid or non-vigilant, had passed a U. S. film which showed a Hollywood Naples, murky and depraved. Mussolini's Italy, Mussolini's Naples had been grossly, falsely represented, insulted! Away with the Board!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinema | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Aroused by this and scores of similar editorials the Anti-Saloon League, vigilant, called attention to historical facts which prove that most despatches from New Zealand concerning the referendum, last week, were either poppycock in the first place, or were misinterpreted upon arrival.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Wet Mistake | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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