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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Conference No. 21 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Agricultural implements, and other "commodities used in developing Turkish industry and agriculture" to be duty free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Strenuous Ghazi | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy. Not only did the Argentine Navy have no money to pay for the new destroyers, they had no money to pay port dues for their transport, were forced to steam away and use the free anchorage at Cowes, off Southampton. There was no money to buy supplies. Officers and sailors had to beg money from friends to buy food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Parsimonious President | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After these qualifications, Mr. Roberge announced that Edsel Ford was willing to have automobiles on the free list. It was noticed that Mr. Roberge did not echo Mr. Sloan's statement about not importing foreign-made cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U.S. Motors Abroad | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...free country you are not to be officially restrained in your maintenance of opinions which you hold as an individual; but . . . that weighty responsibility attaches to pronouncements by a bishop . . . that thoughtfulness and reticence on his part are exceedingly desirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Paul Jones | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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