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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of today's column will be something like advertising for the thing discussed but if our readers will follow our advice there are few of them who will ever forget that we knew at least one good thing when...
...Every high school and college in the nation should have this periodical on file in its library and every current events class of our schools should require that it be regular reading. Every man in the least interested in what is going on in the world and especially the busy man who has but little time to devote to reading is missing something if he doesn't read TIME...
Finally there was a Conclusion-a sort of preliminary farewell to the U.S. people from Calvin Coolidge (who will make at least one more Last Speech at the Hoover inauguration). Said he of peace and prosperity: ". . . Having reached this position, we should not fail to comprehend that it can be easily lost. It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world. . . . Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods. It is too easy under their influence for a nation to become selfish and degenerate. This test has come to the United States...
...year since 1918, when farmers planted for war. The Mississippi flood of 1927 caused this sharp difference. The report remarked: "Expansion of acreage is not always desirable, and the expansion this year in the case of certain crops-notably potatoes-was definitely undesirable. Expansion of acreage, however, is at least a mark of confidence in the future of agriculture. The increase was pretty well distributed throughout the country and was divided among cotton, spring wheat, potatoes, and other leading crops. A decline representing a shift to more intensive crops took place in the acreage previously devoted...
...least half a millennium no one has thought of Chinamen or Chinawomen as pioneers. They have chosen not the virile and womanly covered wagon, but the sendentary and exquisite silken robe. Today China has only one Daniel Boone -the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week he lectured Chinafolk severely for their timid sit-by-the-hearthishness and failure to pioneer. "Is it any wonder," he roared, "that we are laughed at by imperialist countries, who treat us contemptuously, as though we were their little grandsons? They do not even esteem us as much as their cats and dogs...