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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the wool ranchers and wool manufacturers bombarded the Ways & Means Committee about Schedule 11, the wool tariff. Count through the alphabet to the eleventh letter and it is K? the famous Schedule K of 1909, the issue on which the Democrats carried the House election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Write a letter to each bigwig saying: "You will receive in a few days an official invitation. . . . Only about 300 of these are being issued to distinguished people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Shrewd | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Surprising even himself, probably, the heretofore consistently defiant Bad Boy of Tennis paved the way for his second reinstatement by conceding the justice of his suspension in a letter to the amateur rules committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amateur Tilden | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...blank cartridge that starts on its course another of the infinite relay of plans for good is fired by the correspondent whose letter suggests the foundation of a Peace Museum. The institute so built might surely offer its gallery of portraits and memorials as a Mecca to a peaceful world; and there would stand a library likewise devoted to this ideal; and, if the founders were really generous, the edifice housing these mementoes would be quite as inspiring as its contents. There is the raw material for a highly pleasing concretion of an ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANNED GOOD WILL | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

Round 15. Col. Stewart, piqued, in Chicago, shot back to Mr. Rockefeller Sr. a letter: "I could have understood the silence of a father under the circumstances. I cannot understand your making this statement, unless you have been deliberately misinformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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