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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After putting this quaint remark thoroughly through its paces, Stanley Baldwin said that in his opinion Abraham Lincoln was "one of the greatest men produced by our race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin's Ape | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...vicious and those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning the destruction of the Maine...

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

...Abraham Kalish introduced Mr. Thomas as "the man who entered the Socialist party when a 'liberal' President was putting thousands of Socialists in jail, and while Quaker Hoover was silent about his desire for peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORMAN THOMAS FLAYS PARTIES | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that when they all fall out the World will come to an end. Furthermore by listening at the Sacred Stone one may still hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Since the Mohammedans are perfectly within their legal rights, an extreme recourse was resorted to last week, by Abraham Isaac Kook. Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Weeping copious tears Colonel* Kook decreed a general fast day and renewed mourning by all Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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