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The tendency of newspapers to leature vice and scandal has usually been deplored: but even the yellowest of modern journals finds a defender or an apologist in the person of Dr. James Lee, Dean of Journalism at New York University. Basing his argument on the unusual theory that the "wages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER WAGE OF SIN | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

Indian Music. This last was a well constructed and pleasant piece. Somehow there exists a sort of mysticism and sacredness in the act of basing music on Indian elements and in the opinion that the true, real and essentially American music will be built in part on Indian elements. Something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

" Basing my attitude on the established precedent of past seasons, I had assumed courteous consideration would be shown my desires regarding the opera to be selected, but as the present attitude of the company clearly indicates that you now deem this entirely unnecessary, I am obliged to accept your decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

Imperial Preference. Imperial Preference is (roughly) the granting of a preferential tariff on imports within the Empire. Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme, President of the Board of Trade, said that if the Dominions and the mother country worked together they would be able to realize a development throughout the Empire comparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Affairs: Imperial Conference | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

The basing of quotas on the census of 1890 instead of on the census of 1910 will enlarge relatively the quotas from northern Europe, as compared to southern, because immigration from the latter region has taken place mostly since 1890.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: A New Deal | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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