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With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

The Midnight Taxi shows Helene Costello falling for an honest bootlegger in a complicated but exciting melodrama filmed on a train. A variation between the race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Exceedingly apropos is a despatch from Tennessee, printed last week by the Republican New York Sun, staunch supporter of Candidate Hoover. The Sun's star political correspondent, George Van Slyke wired: "The religionists have thrown off all restraints in the last month and are working openly against Smith. The...

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

Investigation. Last January, while investigating Teapot Dome, the Senate Committee on Public Lands discovered that just before and just after Dec. 20, 1922, the date of the Salt Creek lease, Oilman Sinclair gave or loaned Secretary Fall $35,000. The day the bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Villains? Goat? | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Following the Gilbert-Baldwin-Churchill conference in London, the Agent General returned to Paris, so unobtrusively that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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