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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Priests as Clappers. Perhaps the only humorous page of Laborite Ponsonby's whole appalling report is that on which he shows how the European press gradually and spontaneously built up an atrocity story out of absolutely nothing, after the fall of Antwerp in November, 1914. Without comment he presents the following press cuttings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ponsonby's Report | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Prof. Irving Babbitt's article in this month's "Forum," in which he violently attacks the late President Eliot's educational system, has created something like a dignified furore down Cambridge way. The entire article has been reprinted in the Harvard Crimson and has served to stir up endless comment among the surprised but not altogether shocked professorate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Health | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: Steuart H. Britt's letter in TIME of Dec. 31 is not adequately answered by your comment. Students of history should be informed that in reality Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3, 1849, and promptly thereafter Taylor became President. The Constitution provides, concerning the Presidents: "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath. . . ." President Taylor took this oath at noon on March 5 because he had no occasion to enter on the execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Age | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Will you permit me to comment on the letter of The Baltimore Sun's S. Miles Bouton, published in your issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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