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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharing public interest with the possibility that a professional baseball game was thrown eight years ago is the present fact that something of importance is going to happen in Nicaragua. It is not easy to discover what that something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEXT UNPLEASANTNESS | 1/8/1927 | See Source »

...Woods' appointment seems to be tangled up with everything that has happened in Pennsylvania politics from the spring of 1926 to what will happen in the spring of 1928. Even the rock-ribbed Republican New York Herald Tribune supplied the following comment in its news columns last week: "It is declared that the real reason why he has been selected for the Interstate Commerce Commission is that the Mellon forces in Pennsylvania have set out to control the Pennsylvania delegation in 1928 for President Coolidge and that Mr. Woods, in this influential Federal post, will be in a situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pennsylvania Tangle | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...past autumn) into the hands of editors callow and ribald, is neither unusual nor significant. The Lampoon's coarse insults to Princeton, subsequent inept apologies and yet more recent displays of awkwardness in prose, verse and cartoon, were simply the sort of thing that can happen in undergraduate journalism-a parallel to the miserable football team that often afflicts a college just after it has won a championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Painful Duty | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...during the strike should have been exploited by incompetent leadership.... We shall go to the pollslabby utterance is the crux. The House need not ipso facto be dissolved until 1929. Were it dissolved tomorrow, recent by-elections show that the Labor party could count substantial gains; but much may happen while Mr. Baldwin takes his own good time. Labor considers that he betrayed the strikers and is against him tooth and nail as never before; but he has "muddled through" with the good will if not the admiration of the non-laboring class. The party leadership of Mr. Macdonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Debit | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...search, for the "official" All-American is not so quickly chosen nor so authentically "official" as in the days of Walter Camp. There are 300 colleges playing football, and every campus chants for its heroes. The best that can be done is to compare the All-American teams that happen into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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