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Word: cannot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot "keep house" without TIME and wish to compliment you on gathering together more real useful information and real NEWS than we have ever seen "gathered together under one roof" before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Senator is said to be in a SANITARIUM up north-and Frank Hampton his secretary continues to wire him that AL SMITH CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE NOMINATED. I think as soon as he learns of what happened at HOUSTON (and it was a plenty) that he will wire the parsons and the wimmen that it would be much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Secretary of the Treasury, particularly, "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton, cannot afford to indulge in wishful thinking. Financiers were inclined, last week, to be instructed, rather than startled by what financial writers called Secretary Mellon's "bold" plan for refinancing the Third Liberty Loan which matures in September. With the money market hitting its highest since 1920 Secretary Mellon offered to exchange 3⅛% bonds for the 4¼% Third Liberty Bonds, which mature in September. He gave the new bonds a life of 12 to 15 years. Like most Government securities, they were only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mellon's Boldness | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...people of Palestine cannot and will not tolerate the present absolute colonial system, and urgently insist upon and demand an alteration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Intolerable! | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...with three independent, competing systems, was not so well pleased. International Tel. and Tel. merged, this spring, with the telegraph and cable companies of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. But Radio Corporation of America, restrained by federal act, cannot fuse with cable companies, cannot merge with International Tel. and Tel. or with the mighty Western Union system. Divided, competitive, U. S. cable and radio chiefs wondered how they were to battle Britain, already ahead, for first place in the world of international communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fused, Honored | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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