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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then you list conductors. Almost every eminent one in America is, as stated, Jewish. You must admit that. But then your wise editorial head induces you to add, with just the faintest trace of insult, "But Toscanini is no Jew." Toscanini is not Jewish. What of it? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you left for a list of Gentile conductors, I ask you? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you among the Jews? I refer you to your own printed list, which includes all the conductors of note in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...inscription. Last week Mr. Warren was in Belgium bristling against the would-be emasculators. "The nigger in the woodpile," said he scathingly, "has evidently been my dear friend, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. . . . The people of Belgium want the inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable by those two pests-the professional pacifists and the professional prohibitionists. . . . The only thing I desire is to be allowed to finish my work and hand over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Furore | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...hard-hitting Freshman baseball team will attempt, to add the Dartmouth first year nine to its already large list of victims this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN NINE MEETS GREEN | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

...pleading, cheering, imploring mob of Harvard students filled the Union, chanting "Beat the Princetonian baseball team." To Coach Field's exhortation, in that moment when he silenced the pandemonium with an uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

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