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...wilderness Kermit Roosevelt arrived at Shanghai and announced?lest there be some doubt about it???that his brother would surely accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: To Porto Rico, Roosevelt | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Despite the popularity of Their Majesties?or perhaps because of it???misguided subjects contrive to scratch initials and other devices on the Royal bodies surprisingly often. Policy seems to dictate that the Crown shall not proceed against such petty offenders. Every blemish is patiently and skillfully obliterated (with sandpaper and quick drying varnish) during the night after it is discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it???quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope and gore for the sake of the Maharanee of Dahlcurrie's necklace; is nevertheless pleasantly credible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...been simply one of common honesty. Being a simple matter of honesty there was naturally no crusade in favor of it. The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, raucous in defense of the Eighteenth Amendment, never mentioned it. President Coolidge never mentioned it. Candidate Smith never mentioned it???because as many Democrats as Republicans had opposed it. Probably not one voter in a thousand had the least idea that the question of reapportionment existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...instead of all this talk?and this is the last night I will devote to it???what should we be doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off The Sidewalks | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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