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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above item was printed in TIME three years...
...applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...
...Illinois (TIME, May 17). The House- ¶ Passed Army Air Bill, the last of three big air expansion measures, providing for expenditure of $250,000,000 in five years. (Went to the President who signed it.) ¶ Refused, 246 to 34, to eliminate from the Second Deficiency Bill an item granting $2,686,760 for Prohibition enforcement. The Wets were humiliated...
...have been a long while-maybe a year-getting around to it, but some time in the past twelvemonth TIME has had an item which impresses me as rare journalism. [TIME, Oct. 19, SPORT]. It was a little piece, and it ran, according to my copy, like this...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...