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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but business is chiefly in the hands of people from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Hawaii | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...policeman, thinking he spied the assassin, whipped out his revolver and began to shoot at the scurrying cub. Someone knocked up the policeman's arm, thus saving to posterity a famed storyteller. Cub Cobb's name was Irvin S. Cobb, who lived to write Speaking of Operations, A Laugh a Day, Here Comes the Bride, etc., etc., and to reminisce last week about the Goebel murder, perhaps as famed a murder as there is in all hard-shooting Kentucky's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exile | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Acting as Chairman of the "Red Menace" last week, and preserving strictest order was Comrade Nikolai Bukharin. Today he is right-hand henchman to Dictator of Soviet Russia Josef Stalin, many of whose speeches he is believed to write. Pounding for order in parliamentary fashion, Chairman Bukharin announced the following agenda of subjects for discussion: 1) Reiteration of the program of world revolution. 2) Encouragement of Communism in nationalist China and India. 3) Defensive measures against the wars being planned by Capitalism. 4) Encouragement of revolt movements in all colonies held by imperialistic powers. 5) Inspection of the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Menace | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Recent free advice: "Permanent pastures perpetuate parasites. Change your stock from one pasture to another, and change the kind of stock on the same pasture as far as possible. Follow sheep and cattle with horses and swine." "This is a good time to dip your sheep for sheep ticks. Write for Farmers' Bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farmers' Friends | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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