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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This very literacy, plus the proletarian character of the only partially assimilated immigrant population, has given Argentine politics their pronounced Socialist trend, a trend which only sternest measures by a series of strong Socialist Presidents has halted on the brink of Bolshevism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

The war gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-climax | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

This collection of modern advertising literature contains scores of large colored posters from Holland, Belgium, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden of remarkable beauty. There are a few of the same sort of large posters which have been printed by American railroads, including several by John Held Jr. of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

Robert H. Clancy of Michigan-refers to himself as "The Billion Dollar Congressman" during campaigns. Went to the House first as a Democrat, was beaten at the polls and is now there as a Republican, violently partisan. He is the great "whisperer" of the House, with all manner of "inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

The nurse is the most important character in the play. Her idea of DUTY is a strange mixture of hate for the invalid's wife, love for the invalid, horror of sexual irregularity. Of her, the mother says: "I cannot help feeling sorry for a girl who has so...

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

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