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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard boys seem awfully sappy compared to aviators." With such cruel curtness has one debutante dismissed "the whole tribe of fops" across the Charles and broken it is not known how many Crimson hearts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYER FLAPPER FLAYS FOPS WHO HAIL FROM HARVARD | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

This article of yours gives the desired information and it is, in a brief readable form, definite data of genuine human interest, with touches of humor here and there which make the whole world kin, e'en tho they dwell in marble halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho plodded into the Department of Justice last week to demand of Attorney General Mitchell that the whole system of prison spying cease. Col. Mitchell weighed the question thoughtfully, and Senator Borah withheld comment until a decision should be announced. Meantime, Mrs. Willebrandt hinted that the prison-snooping system had originated with Attorney General Sargent. At the same time, with feminine inconsistency, she hinted that if she could not continue to snoop on her prison wardens she would resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Snook v. Snoop | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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