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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the U. S. entered the World War, the late Franklin K. Lane, then Secretary of the Interior, was called upon by keen-eyed Mr. Campbell, who had a proposition. His idea was that untold quantities of wheat could be grown upon Indian reservation lands lying idle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...hills is he. Mountain trails and trout streams he knows. If blindfolded in the dense woods, he could find his way out without bumping into a single tree. Ormond (erroneously called "Omar") Doty is an able guide and fishing companion of President Coolidge. Between them has grown a friendship which is shown by their understanding silence when together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Rearing the healthy little animal is comparatively easy. Destroying Lottie, the handsome, ignorant grown animal, is difficult indeed. The ruse of giving Lottie rein in a cheap flirtation fails through Ralph's weak forgiveness. Mrs. Bascomb lives away for some years, torn free. When she returns things are worse than before. Small Dids is "on the town," getting tough while Lottie joyrides; Ralph is still grubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Mother | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage, The Bent Twig, Home Fires in France, The Brimming Cup, the U. S. translation of Papini's Life of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Mother | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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