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...FOUR GENERATIONS???Naomi Jacob?Macmillan ($2.50). Anglo-Jewish family novel, earnest but not first-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...last three generations???since the close of the Civil War?the Democratic party has named eleven men for the presidency. Six of them?Seymour. Greeley, Tilden, Cleveland, Parker, and Smith? were New Yorkers. Three of the six? Seymour, Tilden, and Smith?have been conspicuous members of Tammany Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tammany | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations???since the dawn of Japanese history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Era | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Near the inn, in fishermen's dwellings, bungalows, and a row of neat Summer cottages, dwells the heterogeneous, shifting "student body." Coming and going, staying or leaving, are members of both sexes and various generations???novelists, doctors, lawyers, merchants, a playwright who challenges the lecturers, a Lucy Stone Leaguer, a judge from South Carolina who calls himself a "Freshman at 60" because he is going to school at the University of South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An End | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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