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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater returns from an advertisement that is actually read by one hundred thousand people than by an ad reaching three million people - most of whom an do not even see it, and very few of whom actually read the copy. Therefore TIME is to be congratulated on its wisdom. HARM WHITE President The Harm White Co. Cleveland, Ohio Sirs: There is a need for a newsmagazine such as TIME which can be read from cover to cover in not more than two hours time. I congratulate you on your purpose to limit the number of your pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...amongst subject peoples has been that we are training them for self-government. The most typical of that is our Indian empire. A thousand and one reasons are given for a little more tutelage. . . . Now plain, practical common sense should come to our rescue. Nobody can imagine that any harm will come from independence. Let independence be granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Devil People? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...necessary for the body yet their being cut out causes no unusual symptoms. Others maintain that the tonsils catch bacteria and prevent them getting into the system. Still others show that the tonsils are excellent breeding places for germs. Most agree that their removal does good in many instances, harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tonsils | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Spending less time with more women, he began an active public life. He wrote pamphlets and books on finance and history. One such opus, well-worded, eclectic, seditious, got him appointed "out of harm's way" as diplomat-at-large to the Court of Berlin where he nearly succeeded in embroiling Germany and France, at a time when there was "not a cent in the French treasury." France's poverty, he found, was due to the predatory habits of nobility and clergy. Against them he, a people's deputy in Paris, attempted to unite King and People. Of the despised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stormy Mirabeau | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...doing they do double harm to the nation. First they send our money abroad to America, a country which has just dealt a great blow to our export trade (TIME, April 8, et seq.) and second they take away work from Italian industries and laborers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Automobilistic Snobbery | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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