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...will study your declaration," he said thickly to Scot MacDonald, "once or twice or thrice, or as often as may be necessary, scanning every word of it, reading its hidden meaning if there is a hidden meaning in it-and if I then come to the conclusion, as just now seems likely, that as far as I am concerned we have come to the parting of the ways, it does not matter to us. ... The dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life, and sometimes even blood brothers have got to go each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Will Be Hell? | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed and ably edited columns. Whatever else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment of the Constitution extended citizenship to the colored race. Section 2 of the same amendment provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...among the Prince de Ligne's guests at an Embassy dinner last month. As everyone knows, the Belgian Embassy, like many another, is wet. At the dinner table Mr. McLean dined well, very well, too well. He was distressed. He requested the Prince's assistance. The Prince gave it-and asked his publisher-guest to leave the party. The Post's outbursts ensued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Discourtesies | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Well, what is the Republican answer to all this? ... A quotation from George Washington, another one from Abraham Lincoln and, at the bottom of the two quotations, a promise to enforce it-and not only to enforce it but to vigorously enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cause and Effect | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Soon after we moved here, I took off the dirty old wall paper from the kitchen-several layers of it-and found, underneath, pictures of all sorts of birds. Some of the birds I recognized and some I had never seen. They were right pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palimpsest | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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