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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Recently a reader submitted his list of the ten greatest Americans, demanded to know which subscribed to TIME. May I suggest ten interesting Americans, not necessarily the most interesting, and inquire which subscribe ? list: H. L. Mencken James A. Reed William E. Borah Charles H. Mayo Nicholas Murray Butler John Erskine Graham McNamee* Will Rogers Alexander Woollcott David Belasco...
...joined the Secret Service. Much of the pompous society he served had dissolved when he returned to Manhattan. He took up his cutlery and went to work again in the inelegant, workaday Evening Post Building. But still his old customers seek him out, and the subject of his greatest achievement still flourishes...
...Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries...
Clearly the Coolidge Adminstration and the Baldwin Cabinet knew, last week, that John Chinaman is at last completely out of hand. The U. S. was further burdened with responsibility when it was noted that, Admiral Williams outranks all other officers of the foreign armada patroling Chinese waters ? "the greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow...
...week preceding and a few days after the opening of college. An average of about four hundred men a day make use of this Bureau and find those in charge not only willing to answer questions but to advise them in any problem they may have. Perhaps the greatest service of this Bureau is the information which it gives on lodging places about Cambridge. It is estimated that about two thousand men who are unable to secure rooms in dormitories are forced to live in private houses and apartments within a half mile radius of the University. The Phillips Brooks...