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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Good prisonmen keep a peeled eye on conditions and methods in other prisons than their own. Some of the institutions which the conferring penologists at Albany and the penal officials at Washington view with alarm, note with pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...example of Wyoming which named its highest peak after its longtime Senator Francis Emroy Warren (TIME, July 1), was naming its highest spot Mount Borah. The Idaho Geographic Board, with the Senator's permission, forwarded the mountain's new name to the U. S. Geographic Board in Washington for inscription on all future maps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mt. Borah | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Mount Borah was "discovered" by U. S. Geologist Lee Morrison of Kaw, Okla., who measured its heights but inadvertently departed without giving it a name. Last week, its official name in Washington was "Beauty Triangulation Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mt. Borah | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Situated in Lemhi National Park, Custer County, 50 miles from the famed Craters of the Moon, Mt. Borah, unlike its namesake in Washington, is white-crested the year round, cold, unapproachable, terribly silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mt. Borah | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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