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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is TIME? A hash of special interests, or a reflector of universal news ? If news appears in any department, print it (as indeed you do). Let unnewsworthy space-fillers alone. Your judgment may err, and you may profit from occasional advice, but we trust your good sense of balance to be better than any of us could achieve. Your editorial discrimination, as well as your condensation, is worthy of our praise and loyalty. Avoid "departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Munich, on his incognito arrival, he said to reporters: "In the words of the popular American song, 'Please go away and let me sleep.'" Later, on emerging from the Hofbrauhaus (brewery) he remarked: "I am having my first real rest in Germany." On leaving Munich, in a speech to reporters, he stated that "The German people . . . have a great future before them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Mayor Abroad | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found, the role of special pleader, being content to follow Darwin's own example-Let the truth speak for itself!" Having congratulated the president upon a masterful pronouncement, British science listened to further addresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Leeds | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moose Pap | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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