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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have firm faith that the urgent problem of Italian expansion can be resolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patient | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...theory of the way in which it works. The facts of its effect are simpler. In 24 hours the addicts were able to sleep normally. In 72 hours they stopped asking for drugs. Their appetite for food increased; they wanted food every minute, particularly sweet food. Their skin became firm; they showed no sign of nervousness; they were declared cured, at least temporarily. Only one came back, a Negress who yearned for languor. And what, doctors wondered, will narcosan do for the shadowy, secretive regiments of U. S. addicts to opium, to morphin, to cocain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Died. Loton Horton, 72, President, Sheffield Farms Co., Chairman of Board, National Dairy Products Co. (world's largest dairy firm); in Nice, France; of pneumonia. He started life driving a milk wagon for his uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Later he was buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery, again with the simplest kind of ceremony. And Harvard men returned once more to their work, carrying with them not tears and regrets, but President Eliot's spirit, a firm faith in progress and the future...

Author: By Henry WILDER Foote jr., | Title: Tranquil Thanatopsis Quiet Requiem | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

...occasion which called for such writing in behalf of a store, was a great one. With the pomp of an abdicating dynasty the Manhattan jewel firm of Dreicer was about to close its doors forever. Booklets opalescent with suave, serene opportunities to buy were being sent out under the guidance of Ivy Lee, unique public relations counsel (TIME, Oct. 4). As an item there was pictured modestly in a neat corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tears for Love | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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