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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to 1928, the greatest popular vote polled by a U.S. Presidential candidate was Harding's 16,152,200 in 1920. Next highest was Coolidge's 15,725,016 in 1924. The 1928 results have not yet been officially rechecked and published. The latest count compiled by Current History shows Hoover 21,409,215, Smith 15,042,366. When a final count of the 1928 popular vote is available, TIME will print it, State by State...
...highest tariff levied will be 59% on "luxury cigarets," and the lowest 7.5 on needles. Other outstanding classifications...
...time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
...when the Dispatch was knocked down at a sheriff's sale on the courthouse steps to the highest bidder, Pulitzer had $2,500 to pay for it, $2,700 to run it. He bought. Three hundred dollars of his capital he reserved against the expenses of the forthcoming birth of his eldest child. With the rest, he made newspaper history...
...Dick did win. James Cash Penney, chain store owner and raiser of Guernsey, paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...