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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly: "Lord help these bad New Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Class Conflict | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Name all the Gods, and in their name I tell you France must help me-must!" Thus, at Peking, to a French correspondent, thundered last week the great barbaric War Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thumping a table top with the hilt of his sword, Chang continued: "The advance of the Chinese Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War Lord Battles | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...McRoberts continued: "The plans for the Broadway Temple could not help but succeed, with God as our ally. The downtown* financial district recognizes the need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Temple | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Although the Club has no official agreement with the H. A. A. Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 said last night, "I give my approval, to the plan because it will offer one more sport to students and will help the spread of our athletics for all policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF CLUB PRIVILEGES EXTENDED TO HARVARD | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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