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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boy Scout | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...elect a governor* of Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief? and tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Pierpont Morgan: "I am here all alone. All the others have gone to the Ritz. But there is really nothing I can tell you, for we have not yet met with our associates on the experts committee. However, the time may come when we shall need your help, and we shall certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Fashion v. Royal Style | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Nearly everyone can account for the sentimental ones to his own satisfaction, but the comic offerings will cause much scanning of postmarks. Even so, the most popular of the Vagabond's followers should have sorted and filed his Valentines before the morning is quite gone, and when he has he will find that the day is a festive occasion in the field of lectures as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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