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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the raid an employe of the trade delegation, Mr. Khudiakov, who had refused to give up the key of a safe containing the personal papers, ciphers, codes, etc., of the official trade agent was assaulted by the police. Mail addressed to the official trade agent, which had just been brought by couriers, was carried off by the police. These proceedings are in flagrant violation of Article V of the trade agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grave Step | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Higher education, like lower religion, was once regarded as a field for commercial exploitation. Indeed, "diploma mills" still flourish, teaching all things from ethics to how-to-be-a-Prohibition-agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition Eclipsed | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...York City last week General Passenger Agent P. H. Woodward of the Long Island R. R. greeted Henry W. Gaines of Huntingtpn, L. I. Mr. Gaines, aged 70, had just achieved a half-century of daily commuting over the L. I. R. R. between Huntington and Manhattan (73 miles round trip). Passenger Agent Woodward declared that, assuming Commuter Gaines to have taken the train between his home and office twice daily, except Sundays, since 1877, he had ridden the equivalent of 45 times around the world on the L. I. R. R. For this the railroad gave Commuter Gaines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Commuter | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...person who has left a motor vehicle on University property shall remove the same if requested to do so by a properly authorized officer of the University or his agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PARKING RULES AFFECT STUDENTS | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...Widener Memorial Library has just recently received 75 packing cases from Paris containing some 30,000 books and pamphlets, purchased on February 1 by an exchange of cablegrams between a Paris agent of the Library and the authorities. It was the library of an owner whose change of residence led to the acceptance of an offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER LIBRARY PURCHASES SOME 30,000 FRENCH VOLUMES | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

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