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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devotees of Islam. In the present instance, I fear that you have shocked the Catholic Sister cruelly, unless you cancelled her subscription so promptly that she did not receive the issue in which her letter and the verse appeared. If I am any judge of human nature, she at least flipped through a copy to see if her letter had been printed. You might have spared her a shock, and perhaps tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...same time Dean Hanford called attention to the General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 54, Section 92, which state that an absentee voter within this state is one who is separated by at least two municipalities from the city or town where he is a registered voter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFORD RULES THAT VOTING ABSENCES MAY NOT BE TAKEN | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...this rushing to and fro by the fiscal heads of. Europe arose a popular impression that sweeping action would be taken at once. At the very least it seemed that the lukewarmness of Chancellor Churchill had been transformed into eager cooperation. Perhaps the Great Powers were on the eve of formally consummating the project first dreamed at Thoiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Socialist members of the Chamber's Finance Committee fairly screamed objections to the budgeted military, naval and air expenditure of six billion eight hundred million francs ($265,000,000) during 1929. They thought that at least one of the billions ought to be spent on measures of social relief. Particularly did they object to an allotment of 150,000,000 francs ($5,850,000) for the construction of fortifications along the frontier of disarmed Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Budget Battle | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

When it came time to do something about the highly controversial subject of divorced persons and their status in the Church a commission was appointed to give ten years' study to divorce in general. For a decade, at least, official (and perhaps antagonizing) action was deferred thereby. This was in good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polite Convention | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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