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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would, I think, be almost dishonest - certainly most ungracious - if I didn't let you know what an amazingly fine job I think you have been doing with TIME. I set aside this last weekend to clean up a lot of work that had accumulated at my home. I started to look over an accumulation of magazines that had piled up, looking mostly for reviews of books and plays. Then I picked up the March 22 issue of TIME, read it through, did the same with the issue of the 29th and April 5. This is a rather difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Let Dentist Hoeffer reread the item. It contains none of the implications he asserts. Many a dental student, male and female, has curtailed his full studies to become a professional of lesser (though allied) rank than a dentist. Some have progressed to become stomatologists. - ED. "Famed" Praised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...unaware of unrest in the granges, but loath to ask any large measure of farm legislation from Congress, the President let it be known that he expects Agronomist* Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, to evolve a plan to dispose of surplus farm crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...from Manila the cable flashed last week a speech which crowned perhaps the greatest triumph of the calm potency of Leonard Wood. The speech was from the lips of Emilo Aguinaldo. Concerning him, let it be remembered that in 1899 when the U. S. decided to hold the Philippines, he shot up a U. S. outpost and started an insurrection which lasted six times as long as the Spanish War, cost more than half as much, required 60,000 U. S. troops to quell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen in the Sixth Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ' I Charge | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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