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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover: "The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day . . . by legislation ... by the Federal government alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators v. Hoover | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news or editorial policies to suit the interests of the power company, it is plain that the relationship is embarrassing. Their own avowals of independence prove that much. However conscientiously they may have acted, the relationship is ambiguous and cannot be defended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Independence in Newspapers | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...ignoring them completely. Inevitably some of them will have an effect on his future life and as a result should call forth a vital interest on his part. If the New York Times contest can help to stimulate this interest, it is fulfilling a role which the college cannot adequately handle and its existence is fully justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE THAN COMMERCIALISM | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...will find your attention called to the hazardous sport of cribbing, to the fast and savage new indoor game of feather wafting, to kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY STEPS ON NO TOES IN NEW PARODY NUMBER | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia (TIME, Jan. 17, et seq.) they were obliged to accept and bring home "for Baby Betty" no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone, or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her-"for Baby Betty, the darling!"-everything from four-leaf clovers offered by grubby children to the historic lace diaper presented by a beaming Irish woman with a shawl over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P'incess Is Three | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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