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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioners were photographed with the President on the White House posinground. The Hoover shoulder nudged close to the Wickersham shoulder, the Hoover cheeks puckered on the verge of a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Great Commission | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...known that Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister to Uruguay abruptly announced: "My country brings to a close all of her frontier problems. None remains now to be contemplated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Never! | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...more stringent grow the drink laws of teetotaling Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico. Those who believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: No Swinging Doors | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Presbyterians. If the hopes of nearly 1,000 Presbyterian churchmen, voiced at the close of their 141st General Assembly last week at St. Paul, are realized, 15,000,000 U. S. Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians will soon be united in common worship. The Presbyterians voted to take steps toward union at once. Said one delegate. "How much more powerful an army could we muster if we churches fought under one banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Union . . . | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Flying Club to continue regular flying practice this year until the first of July marks an innovation in the policy of the Club, according to announcement made yesterday by I. T. Williams '30, recently elected president of the organization. Formerly the flying was discontinued at the close of the Examination Period, but sufficient interest has been evidenced this year to warrant an extension of the customary season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FLYING CLUB PLANS TO EXTEND SEASON TO JULY 1 | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

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