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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still in Debt. But the U. S. debt remains 18 billions big.^ "It is a, menace to our credit. It is the greatest weakness in our line of national defense." It should be paid by "reasonable" taxation. Government economy must continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...full Christian rites of France, Sultan Mulai Mohammed, as he will be known, stepped under the Imperial sunshade to direct the destinies of his native land-under the aegis of the Republican French, who are now expected to have a freer hand than ever in the administration of their greatest protectorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Sultan | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...What Price Glory?", the present attraction at the University Theatre for the whole week, has, of course been discussed before. Inevitably it is linked and compared with "The Big Parade," and many a movie fan has argued the side of one or the other as the greatest picture of the war ever produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHAT PRICE GLORY" AT THE UNIVERSITY | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

...lines, Peter was the true founder of the Russian Empire that endured in solitary state for two centuries, and only fell in the overthrow of Nicholas in 1915. His war with Sweden that gave him, after the Battle of Pultowa, the hegemony of Northern Europe, was one of the greatest military campaigns of history, and the edifice which Peter founded was a lasting tribute to the genius and leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

...Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Variety | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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