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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic industry of the State. It is not only fundamental to all other industries, but it is a big and important industry in itself." He called attention to the fact that New York, though twentieth among the states in farming area, stands eight in total farm production. In potatoes, hay and sweet corn it leads; in dairy products, apples, grapes and total value of vegetables it stands second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith to the U. S. | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...JOHN HAY was chosen Secretary of State, and not John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Richard Olney, Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: All-Star | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...snow-flecked Peking, not in tropical Canton, and not in any of the thousands of square miles that lie between did Chinese cry to one another, last week, Rung Hor Sun Hay! ("Happy New Year!"). Reasons: in the second place, very few Chinese had legitimate cause for happiness; and, in the first place, their "new year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snapdragons | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Farmers' Heyday | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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