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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Dry Senator Borah of Idaho remarked: "Mr. Wickersham has at last succeeded in making it clear that he regards the law as unenforceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: More New Ground | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...duty is painful," said he, shooting out his chin, speaking in quick staccato sentences, "but it is clear and categoric and I will fulfill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Door is Closed'' | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...take office as president next year at Detroit. Whether or not Prohibitor Wilson felt, as some charged, that his presence in Portland was influencing the convention and partly responsible for the election of Dr. Morgan, who was the Wilson candidate in 1927, the majority of physicians voting retained a clear picture of Dr. Morgan's high professional standing. He promised to try to-clarify the muddle of medical costs now vexing the profession. Dr. Morgan said he supposed "that the true difficulty may lie in the elaborate and expensive diagnostic procedures which the public has come to demand, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Convention | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist? If not, why not? The Roman Catholic church is very explicit in its attitude, and we ought to make our position equally clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishops v. Parliament | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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