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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message touched conventionally on foreign relations, taking the Senate's ratification of the Kellogg treaty for granted. Again the cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Test has Come | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

There are six acts of vaudeville on the bill this week at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. One of them is very very good, and the rest are horrid. Only we really don't mean that. Out of the five horrid ones there are two that are pretty fair. One is the Misses Kouns who sing songs of old in a very sweet way, and the other is a dance act by Fowler and Tamara. These latter do all manner of things with the castanets and some dancing besides. We could say a few things about the other acts...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

Omnivorous as he is in questions of academic food, the Vagabond this morning has two quite different items on his bill of fare. At 10 o'clock in Harvard 3 he will satisfy a historical appetite by hearing Professor Haring speak on "The Indian in the Spanish Colonies." Two hours later a trip to the Geology lecture room at 12 o'clock should help satisfy his curiosity about the physical world, for Professor Mather will there explain one of the forces that helped mold it into its present form in a lecture on. "The Action of Waves and Currents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/7/1928 | See Source »

...even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer can despise any human being as thoroughly as Author Shaw despises the son of his mouthpiece millionaire, it is necessary for the writer to have investigated him with the inquisitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...investor had bought and paid for one share of each of these stocks in October, his bill would have been $3,143.00. In. November he could have sold them for $4,533.50, realizing an average profit of about $75 a share. Actually, much paper profit was turned into cash on the market's only day of weakness (Wednesday). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Brothers Fisher sold their 300,000-share holdings of Radio. Their investment cannot have netted them less than $30,000,000, may have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Adjectives Squandered | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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