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...only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Democracy | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

These gentlemen, under the benign chairmanship of Mr. Roosevelt, feasted on excellent viands, gazed amiably out over the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan. With the appearance of coffee and cigars, they proceeded to discuss plans for the establishment of a school of international relations for the promotion' of peace and the training of diplomats at the University where Walter Page matriculated with the first Freshman class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College of Diplomacy | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...parents, facing the poorhouse as an alternative to letting a wealthy man adopt one of their seven children in return for a handsome indemnity. After finding it hard to decide which child they shall give up, they finally choose one. Then find they can't sell her into benign bondage after all. They get the rich man's check anyhow, as might be expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Miss Nash displays a most astonishing versatility which extends from the difficult rapids of soubrette song-and-dance to the placid waters of benign old age. When her emotional explosion occurred, coincident with the loss of her child, an elderly matron sitting next your correspondent half rose in her seat and audibly protested its injustice. More conclusive witness of the power of a performance is seldom seen in the Theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...certainly no more than just that these Croesusos should pay for the trade which the Volstead Act throws their way. But if they were less short sighted and would open their hearts to Mucha's benign example, tax collectors might be more leniently disposed and the public might cast a bland smile upon them. For everyone loves a cheerful public spirited giver, even though he rob Peter to pay Paul

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBBER GOLD | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

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