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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Luft der Freiheit | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Labor: "Having earned my living with my own hands I cannot have other than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Speech | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iron Country | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Last week, the 16th of the dogged strike, New Bedford industry remained at a standstill, rents remained unpaid, stores were without customers, national guardsmen cleaned their rifles. In the greatest labor protest in the history of the textile city, strikers had lost some $9,600,000 in wages, at the staggering rate of $600,000 a week. Mill securities had fallen to purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fishermen Bayoneted | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Louiseboulanger. To Louiseboulanger belongs the credit of discovering the secret of the down-in-the-back hemline. Primarily a dressmaker, rather than dress seller, she amuses herself by studying the personality of unusual women, then designing costumes to suit them. Her greatest triumph has been with the Actress Spinelly, whose frocks are an annual Parisian wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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