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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled in the negative, since "I will not" expresses determination whereas "I shall not" would have been simple prediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fess Incident | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Recalled by his government at the request of France, Christian Rakovsky, onetime Soviet Ambassador to France, sneaked away from Paris at the crack of dawn for Moscow. In his pocket was his letter of recall, which he was supposed to present, amid polite, if cool, verbosity, to President Gaston Doumergue. But M. Rakovsky did not bother to go near the Elysée Palace, where the President lives, and in order to avoid all farewells, friendly and hostile, he left in an apparent "huff" in an automobile, disappointing many people who went to see him off at the Gare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sneaked Away | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Last fortnight Eric H. Palmer wrote a letter to the Federal Radio Commission about Eric H. Palmer Jr.: ". . .I do not believe he has seen the sunlight in three months. He transmits all night and goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 2 ATZ | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...mail out an ordinary business letter the cost, in cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Letter head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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