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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would examine the parents upon their fitness to have a son in college and most certainly upon their qualifications to decide wheth-er he should go there. Where parents fail to pass, the matter should be left for decision to the headmaster or to the high-school principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Examine the Parents | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Fianna Fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Irish Elections | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...records of the Navy Department fail to show a Custis Knapp, either active or retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

That general disarmament would be a major topic of debate in the Assembly was taken to be a foregone conclusion. Postponement of the Prepatory Commission could not fail to evoke a protest from unarmed (comparatively speaking) Germany, who takes the position that all the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles are under equal obligations to disarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Eighth Assembly | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Fianna Fail, which for years refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George was removed, recently ended its resistance (TIME, Aug. 22), took the oath and its seats at the extreme left of the Dail opposition benches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Irish Dissolution | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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