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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restraints in the last month and are working openly against Smith. The State is flooded with the anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Octopus! | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...group of professors in the Harvard Law School are to assist a committee of nine men to be named by the Boston Central Labor Union to draw up a bill for presentation before the state legislature. This document will have as its object the alleviation of injunction law wrongs in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...bill in question had been prepared, he said, to enable the Government to extend assistance to clerical missions in the far flung French colonies. Their work was of the greatest value in coordinating a Colonial Empire so vast that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Budget Battle | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...might have been ranked Louis Israel Harris of New York City and Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago. Both are now out of office-Dr. Harris because he got a better paying job with New York milk suppliers, Dr. Bundesen because he did not truckle sufficiently to Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson of Chicago. Other health officers sympathized so with Dr. Bundesen that they last year elected him president of their American Public Health Association. His successor as Chicago's commissioner of health is Arnold Henry Kegel, who, technically untrained in public health work, is doing a fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Public Health | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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