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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren F. Pershing, who enrolled as a buck private in the military training camp at Fort Snelling, Minn. The General swelled with pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...everyone knows, Miss Lavinia Warren repulsed the attentions of Commodore Nutt because of his dissolute reputation, when he begged her hand in rivalry with General Thumb. The General's virtue was deemed above suspicion, though on Sept. 20, 1854, the Illustrated London News reported that "a lady, from excess of fantasy, eloped with him to the neighborhood of Guilligomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Warren, Ohio, grimy steel mill town on the muddy Mahoning River, 20 miles from Youngstown, last week went begging for enough money to buy two tires for the single fire department truck it can afford to keep available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Municipal Beggary | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen and his platoon to remain on duty, will guarantee them some wages out of the pledged $10,000 until police court and traffic fines and city license fees will bring sufficient money into the city treasury for full payment. Warren's present beggary is the catastrophe to overspending which U. S. municipalities do not seem capable of resisting. Last year local governments assessed taxes of $5,100,000,000, an increase of 76% over those of 1919. But even this huge sum (the highest Federal taxes ever levied for a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Municipal Beggary | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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