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A protective tariff for all sections, for agriculture, for industry and for occupations. Continuation of the elastic provision whereby the President may adjust rates.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Platform | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

A recent English critic has flayed the present literature of his country, and has advised the new writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY "STONES" | 2/29/1924 | See Source »

Premier. There follows an outline of the life history of a man who, once a country yokel, has risen to be Prime Minister of Britain. Born in the village of Lossiemouth in 1866; under the influence of village school teacher renounced manual labor and became a student; at 19 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Advent of Laborism | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player: "I told a London radio audience how I keep my stockings up in play, why I sometimes cry on the court, what it is like to be a cham pion at Wimbledon and what a false legend it is that depicts me as a slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Aug. 13, 1923 | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

The partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. are now: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, William H. Porter, Thomas W. Lament, Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W. Morrow, Edward R. Stettinius, Thomas Cochran, Junius Spencer Morgan, Jr., Elliot Cowdin Bacon, George Whitney, Thomas S. Gates, Russell C. Leffingwell. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Partner | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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