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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading thru his communication and noticing that he hails from "Bahston," I could better understand his bursting into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...will be my pleasure to attend the Superintendents' and Principals' National Convention in Boston on Feb. 25, 1928, and nothing would please me better than to meet "Brother" Rapp and suggest some good reading material, which his seemingly undernourished soul needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Cuba quite as much as elsewhere, social duties accompany the business of diplomacy. Such duties Ambassador Judah is financially equipped to perform better than many a diplomat. He inherited substantially from his father, and Mrs. Judah was Dorothy Patterson of the National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Judah to Cuba | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Headlines of the Better Brand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

Nowhere is this better seen than in the Roman Catholic Church. The contemplation of the oldest institution in the world, which for nearly two thousand years has exercised unbroken dominion over the souls and often the bodies of men contains in itself something of the dramatic. It has had its supreme glories, and its supreme failures; its moments of pride and its moments of discredit; its days of brilliance and its nights of shadow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

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