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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest Negro publication, the Chicago Defender (daily, circulation 208,000), is also for Smith. But other negro publications are for Hoover, including: Pittsburgh Courier 45,000 Houston Informer 15,600 St, Louis Argus 26.500 Philadelphia Tribune 15,000 Manhattan Amsterdam News 29,000 Manhattan Age 38,000 Atlanta Independent 11,000 Baltimore Herald-Commonwealth 7,500 Cleveland Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs: Votes Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Princeton, N. J., November 2--The Princetonian poll for men of age held yesterday resulted in a 362 to 204 victory for Herbert Hoover over Alfred E. Smith. Norman Thomas trailed with 16 votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOVER WINS STRAW VOTE CONDUCTED AT PRINCETON | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Recently the Six heirs found their inheritance taxes a burden. There were too many paintings. Works of art are heavily assessed in an age where everything is interpreted financially. An auction in Amsterdam was announced. To the auction rooms of Frederk Muller, on the banks of the Amstel, came a host of connoisseurs from all over the world. They came to take away from Holland the treasures that the loving Jan Six had collected. Without a particle of sentiment for the Dutch they gathered for refined looting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Buying Dutchman | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Inquisitive students made curious comparisons, last week, between pioneers and speakers. They noted: 1) that only one speaker, Publisher Noyes, is over 60, while the average age of the others is 48; 2) that only one speaker, Publisher Noyes, failed to attend a prominent and popular university; and 3) that each and every speaker is an active executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...AGE OF REASON-Philip Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God Out | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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