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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Both Mr. Ferguson and myself, said Quebec's Taschereau last week, "consider that it is our duty in the two provinces to see that we get fair returns from our forests, and we both consider that the price of $55 is not a fair return.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Premier v. Pulpster | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Claire Adams depicts the Jobian trials of a young newspaperman who is persuaded by his bride to leave spacious Waco, Tex., for a one-room flat in Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

To Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionfor All? | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

One of the most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Statistican Finds the More You Eat the Less You Pay Under New Dining Scheme--Stay Home, Save Money | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

The several very dubious telegrams being received at Yale point obviously to the fact that the disappearance of the fence is due to the equally traditional spirit of the college prank. Undergraduates are notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REMOVAL OF A YALE FENCE | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

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