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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The Official Spokesman, famed White House fiction, was one of the Coolidge institutions thrown overboard by President Hoover. Last week the Official Spokesman reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

¶ Chicago, which ached so for the ship's sight that her rathäusers telegraphed Commander Eckener that the trip could not be a success unless the Graf Zeppelin visited the second U. S. city, climbed porches, poles and pinnacles. Photographers Robert Hartman and Baron von Perckhammer aboard the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Los Angeles to Lakehurst | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Another announcement of last week was made by no less a personage than Alfred Emanuel Smith. Press and public had long waited to hear what he would do instead of being President of the U. S. He is to become president of Empire State Building Corp., a company formed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Servants of the People | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Selling in the U. S. at about 50¢ per gallon, whale oil is used mainly for soap production. Although many whalers bring back only oil, others are prepared to render all the byproducts, used chiefly for fertilizer and cattle meal. Thrifty Japanese treat a whale as thoroughly as they do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whales | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Idaho, in the course of his Jewry v. Islam speech at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see p. 26), said: "Generally, when I do not reflect, I say what I think."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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