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Word: abouting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

¶ To the White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

That the issue of Philippine independence-an issue raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Freedom with Ruin | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

In 1846 when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIRRING HISTORY OF POINT RECALLED | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

The Armistice ended the pressing need for officers, and West Point reverted to normalcy. About three thousand graduates served in this war demonstrating marked ability in the performance of duty. Pershing and March were of the Class of 1886, and 1888; of the forty-one division, corps, and army commanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIRRING HISTORY OF POINT RECALLED | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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