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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in the high-vaulted room of the U. S. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, a premier constitutional lawyer named Jack's name. Onetime Solicitor General James M. Beck,* on behalf of Col. Frank L. Smith, Senator-designate from Illinois, did so to remind the learned Senators that a Democracy should, by most any definition, permit the people to elect a reprobate their representative. Mr. Beck had many another famed precedent. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jack, Daniel, Frank | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...this continued until last week. Then the Maharaja, Col. His Highness Sir Hari Singh* shrewdly announced that to honor 300 of his "favorite" courtiers he would present to each a sacred swan. By this means the Hindu clergy, who had absolutely refused to let the swans be done away with, were disarmed. The swan battalion and its 1,043 retainers were clipped from the budget. But in the princely houses to which the swans were sent there was wailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swan Battalion | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...footnote, see col. 2. *To TIME'S Education Editor a thoroughgoing reprimand for omitting from a tabulation of the Transcript's "ten largest enrollments" (TIME, Jan. 24), the largest one of all. The corrected list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...extract from a letter of Downing in the tract, "A Great Victory God hath Vouchsafed by the Lord General Cromwels Forces against the Scots", is illuminating. "Col: Scot, or Petty Scot isflaine and Col: Buchanan (a man of great eminence and estate among them is taken prifoner as also is Sir John Brown their Commander in chief: Of their foot not 200 escaped and those that are prifoners the most of them are desperately wounded they will hardly live; all their foot Colors are taken and many of their harfe the most of their foot are High landers the reft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventeenth Century Tracts, Strongly Reminiscent of Harvard in Its Infancy, Put on Display in Treasure Room | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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