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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, "if gatherings of farmers are not a little tired of hearing discussions of farm relief." ¶ Apropos President Coolidge's dutiful diligence in the closing months of his administration, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan of the arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune ventured a respectful semi-prophecy: ". . . One cannot help feeling it is within possibility that Mr. Coolidge's high regard for his office may result, sometime before he retires, in something that may have the mood of George Washington's Farewell Address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Coolidge Fund | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...same way, the people of the world cannot solve the problem of world peace. The solution will come from the mind of some great genius who knows the whole problem and who realizes fully the destruction which would result from another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Durant Finds That Leadership Always Must Come From Great Genius--Popular Movements Fail to Solve Problems | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...cannot but wonder what your idea was in publishing [Oct. 22] on page 10, under "Prohibition," a likeness of one John Becak, Manhattan wagon driver for the morgue. Who among TIME subscribers cares what a wagon driver for the morgue looks like? Do you call this "news"? I certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...cannot be too strongly stressed that this election was a referendum upon the issue of prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: America Is Dry | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...however, is useful to ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird-Killing Tower | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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