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...horse is mature at five years and lives five times that stretch, to 25 years. A man is mature at 18 and should live five times as long, until 90. All men might succeed in doing that if they lived hygienically and wore light clothing. (Gerald B. Webb of Colorado Springs, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...only minor-party candidate professing a serious attempt upon the electorate is Frank Elbridge Webb, Farmer-Laborite. He has a plan. He says he will "outgeneral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINOR PARTIES: Mr. Webb | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Webb plan is to throw the election into the House of Representatives. Nominee Webb thinks that can be done by winning the Northwest. "Smith is educating the farmer to vote for us. I'll take five votes from Smith to one from Hoover," he said last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINOR PARTIES: Mr. Webb | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...tragedy of minorities usually is that their leaders are unknown men whom the minority has neither the wit nor the money to publicize. And usually a minority is no greater than its biggest man. Bravely facing this fact, Nominee Webb has been issuing leaflets headlined: "Who the hell is Webb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINOR PARTIES: Mr. Webb | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Judge Edwin Yates Webb, in the case of the U. S. v. Isner, declared he had been a member of the Congress which passed the Volstead act, recalled well the debates on the subject, knew that it was the intention of Congress to define "non-intoxicating" at "non-intoxicating in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fizz Water | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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