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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, medievalist, "high-church" Episcopalian. Reason: "To express my own disgust at the ignorance and superstition now rampant . . . this recrudescence of blatant bigotry."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Colorado. The biggest question in Colorado was whether or not Denver's Democrats were as Wet as when, last year, they sent S. Harrison White to the House. They were. Mr. White was renominated about three-to-one. Attorney-General William L. Boatright was nominated by Republicans to contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: As Goes . . . So Goes . . . . | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

The Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: College | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

But none of these three has succeeded in maintaining as has Augustus John, a triple allegiance with fashionable public, ultra-modernists and academicians. It is undeniable that no U. S. artist is included among the world's most popular portrait painters. Thirty years ago, Eastman Johnson and Daniel Huntington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Faces | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Stockmarketeers found a suddenly strong market, hazarded various and unconvincing explanations, decided not to look the gift horse in the mouth. For the first time since June, a single day's trading passed the 4,000,000-share mark. The ticker once again fell behind, a full 25 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stockmarket | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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