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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education and has practically ignored the Harvard reading period, declared that he could read 15 or 20 books a day. At this gait he would hit, he was bound to admit, only the higher dirty spots of our modern mound builders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLID STERLING | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

...fundamentally sound". But without being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT BAD, NOT GOOD | 1/31/1928 | See Source »

When Smith presented his credentials at the Senate door in November, the Senators refused to admit him even temporarily, on the ground that his election had already been investigated and reported on. He begged a further hearing. He received it. But new evidence as he presented failed to alter his investigators' original decision. Then came the final rejection, giving Illinois notice that it must fill the vacant seat in some manner other than the manner it had approved in the election of Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horrid Scene. | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...derived, not from divine right, but from the opinion of the majority of the faithful. They declare themselves ready to negotiate with the Roman Church . . . on a basis of equality. . . . How could she tolerate an iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence in the world many centuries ago. To affirm this is blasphemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blasphemy | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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