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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These new Republican warriors were called "the Young Turks, a band about 20 strong who had mutinied against the feeble leadership of the Old Guard. For Senators they were young men (average age: 56). As legislative legionaries they were mostly rookies serving their first Senate enlistment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers in Christ | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Birthday. Samuel Insull, utility man; at Chicago. Age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Ministress of Labor Miss Margaret Bondfield introduced for first reading a bill which would increase by $62,500,000 the sums paid to unemployed males and females under the "dole." Increases are planned only in the lower age brackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Thus, boundlessly in love at the age of 61, wrote a rich woman in her diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor. Her brother, Wilhelm II, telephoned to ask if she would like to see him at the last. "Nein, nein," whispered Victoria of Hohenzollern, "I don't want to see anybody but my nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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