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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar to the Laws of Nature and the Fourteen Points, and thus were carefully removed from the contamination of practical politics. The Cambridge newssheets, than which there can be no more contemporary (and therefore infallible) authorities, confirm the actual impotence of this transcendental principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICANS IS RECOUNTED BY UNION ESSAYIST FROM VIEWPOINT OF SCIENTISTS IN FUTURE AGES | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

...merger will invade fourteen states: New York, Ohio Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. In addition, branch lines from these states will enter still other states. Cities affected by the merger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Power and Light | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S. Congressman Meyer London of Manhattan; Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union; and, his grin framed with scars of battle, one-time convict Debs. Fourteen hundred diners and nearly 1,000 at the crowded doors yelled, clapped, bellowed when the hero took his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Try Again | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...problem today is not to eliminate, but to provide as many coaches as are needed to help every undergraduate who wants to play. Exercise is a big motive and last year the Harvard Athletic Association employed forty-four paid coaches at a total cost of $75,000 to supervise fourteen different kinds of sport, for which thirty-nine different schedules were made with teams from other colleges or schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SPORT EQUIPMENT IS URGED BY ALUMNI | 5/8/1925 | See Source »

Then he revisited New Orleans, met Gentleman Jim Corbett in a square place with ropes around. Fourteen rounds, and the Strong Boy lay still, with blood purling down his jowls. By the ropes, Senator Roscoe Conkling, tall in black, was graven in wood; Steve Brodie, apoplectic with woe, wobbled about on his seat. Thereafter, the Strong Boy devoted himself to other activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strong Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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