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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Garvey Again | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...William G. Rockefeller, grandson of James Stillman, this stalwart scion of honorable American lines, gazed, brooding, on the horizon. Bending among his men on a mid-thwart, he had swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympians | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...Coolidge campaign?or what reports divine will be the Dawes campaign for Coolidge?had to conquer some difficulties in its organization before it could proceed calmly and coolly. There was a little disagreement among the mechanics, a scene in the President's private office when one of them almost went on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Slemp vs. Butler? | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

Unguarded Women. Here is a picture that is better than its title, which suggests flappers running wild through Hollywood. Instead, it is a sterling drama of a man's struggle to conquer the innate cowardice of his soul, done without a single heave of the bosom. Richard Dix, with manly and yet inoffensive touch, depicts a War veteran, acclaimed as a hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer, Beware!: Cancer, Beware! | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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