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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen, to whom these lines are chiefly directed, may perhaps be a little startled by the apparent expense involved in the advice therein offered. The expense, however, is only apparent. No one ever thinks of paying his tailor out of his allowance. The correct thing is to let the bill run, and not pay it at all, --payment encourages impudence: but if the tradesman grows clamorous and threatens jail, all you have to do is to plead minority, and let your parents and guardians settle the matter at their convenience

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...system of inland fortifications similar to the French line that hinges on Verdun. "Such fortifications would, of course, be purely a defensive measure, but would be effective as nothing else could be in serving notice upon all that these United States are not an inviting object of buccaneering invasion. . . . Let us never forget the old proverb, 'Sweat saves blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Water Works | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...anti-war treaties, which are so great a triumph of the present Federal Administration. Always we may count upon a saving remnant with strong and delicate imagination, moral sensitiveness and spirituality who in times of moral crisis, by their surer instinct, save us if we are to be saved. Let us give them our wholehearted support, but let us be wise in our day and generation and not put our trust in them alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Water Works | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Mussolini decided immediately to ban the offending cinema, he would have done exactly what Great Britain's Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association did in 1925 to Director Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinema | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects as the $25,000,000 contract just let to the International General Electric Company of New York (TIME, Oct. 29) for electrification in the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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