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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correct or criticize this statement I might inform that no zealous Mason would attempt to induce any man to join the order. It simply isn't done. Being one, I know whereof I speak, or write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Before You're 25. "If a man isn't a socialist sometime before he's 25," says Playwright Kenyon Nicholson, "he has no heart. If he is a socialist after he's 25 he has no head." In this Nicholson play, Clement Corbin, son of a wealthy Chicagoan, has a heart, a radical magazine called The Torch, a baby born en route through Indiana, the baby's mother, no marriage certificate. He is a determined socialist. How his family and would-be wife combine to make him marry and drop The Torch for a furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...than now." ¶ Executive Editor Ik Shuman of the Brooklyn Standard-Union told how he was one of seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly.* I agree with Shuman that you fellows have been chumps on this big name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. S. N. E. | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

There really isn't anything particularly astonishing in the news that a prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING THE TEACHER | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Violet Heming and Minor Watson lead the cast and give excellent performances. In fact if it isn't too much to ask, the powers ought to advance Mr. Watson to Major...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

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