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...absolute antithesis between Christ and Mexitl?peace and war???is all the more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...some of the "little fellows" broke away, started a central cleaning establishment of their own, provoked a racket war featured by the introduction of caustic soda containing sodium nitrate in the seams and lapels of garments which, when cleaned, exploded. Then the main racket organization found itself with another war???this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racketeer | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...last three generations?since the close of the Civil War???the Democratic party has named eleven men for the presidency. Six of them?Seymour. Greeley, Tilden, Cleveland, Parker, and Smith? were New Yorkers. Three of the six? Seymour, Tilden, and Smith?have been conspicuous members of Tammany Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tammany | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...know how much is known here about that great Middle West of America but it has got the healthiest kind of conscience to be found in the world. It was that conscience which abolished slavery and I believe it will ultimately abolish savagery of war???I hope with the aid of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: David v. Goliath | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...they beheld the greatest and most romantic Conqueror of today. All of vast China has been his battlefield, and from South to North he has conquered or reduced all to submission. Geographically the arena of Marshal Chiang's triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War??? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower the comparison of course, reverses itself; but none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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