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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, TIME would observe due reverence in mentioning the "Beard of the Prophet." But if hundreds of Buddhist verses ridiculing the "Beard" should appear, in such scurrilous myriads as to violently affect the campaign, then TIME would print a very few significant specimens of such doggerel...
...expounding U.S. prohibition Britannia's informant referred glibly to the "Volstead Amendment," although even sub-morons know that no such amendment exists. It did not appear from the context whether the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment was meant...
...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...
Last week this happened at Massachusetts Agricultural College (coeducational) when 220 girls sullenly refused to appear for their noonday meal in Draper Hall. The food, they declared, was poisonous; a few of the more delicate girls had been sick because of it. They went on strike...
...Digest mailed its ballots to nineteen million voters and about one in seven have marked them and sent them back. Is this one-seventh a fair sample of the whole body of voters? If not, the real meaning of the poll will not appear on the face of the returns...