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¶Popular supposition that North Dakota farmers were intensely interested in the McNary-Haugen bill or a substitute measure of farm relief was dispelled by Judge R. G. McFarland, spokesman for a delegation of North Dakota farmers calling upon the President. It is the early completion of the Great Lakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

UNKIND STAR-Nancy Hoyt- Knopf ($2.50). Two girls were born on the same night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiz, Bang, Sputter | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

The sporting Freshmen of the Smith Halls, finding the organized sports falling off, have called upon their ingenuity and taken up indoor sports in their common room, to tide them over the present dull season. Symptoms of this tendency were shown earlier on in the year when hockey games, participated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Ash Trays Whirl as Smith Halls Eschew Organized Sports--Shuffle Board Men Begin Common Room Workout | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

The public demand for a craze is becoming if not less insistent, at least temporarily more sane "Ask Me Another", according to those who know, is the latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND AFTER THIS | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

In strike-worn Passaic, N. J. (TIME, Dec. 27), Chief-of-Police Richard Zober last week had a pleasant diversion. With the commissioner of public safety and a police judge he listened to a short speech by one Michael Rusch, 23, who moved to Passaic five years ago from Alsace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pocket Radio | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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