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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Aug. 16 you print a good letter from Mrs. Cecilia Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...South America, the volatile? and indolent?inhabitants of Paraguay and Argentina were easily persuaded to stop all work. But these "general strikes" lasted only two days. In Mexico, surprisingly, there was only a one-hour strike. There was rioting but allegedly not on account of Sacco & Vanzetti. A boycott of U. S. goods was vetoed by laborites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sacco Aftermath | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Campaign. All parties immediately set their election machinery in motion. All, except the Government party, which can now bank on liberal support from the alarmed business community, were short of money, principally on account of a general election having recently been held (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Irish Dissolution | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...without deep concern to the U. S. There is now every prospect that the duties fixed for German goods in several hundred different categories will soon be applied to U. S. products, and will therefore have an adverse influence on French imports from the U. S. on account of higher U. S. prices and the great shipment distances involved. U. S. businessmen in France were accordingly hopeful that the Franco-German Treaty will have the effect of hastening the conclusion of a U. S.-French treaty, which they feel is badly needed to protect their legitimate interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trade Accord | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...more of the competitors, be neutralized. But, "it is announced, moreover, that any new plan that may be worked out must provide for what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact and not as a theory. . . . They are counting on another conference at an early date. . . . Failure to confer further, it was pointed out, would be a suicidal policy from a railroad standpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: R.R. Re-grouping | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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