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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originally planned for it-but you and the likes of you, through ignorance or prejudice are trying to kill an undying organization of American born white citizens, who are as much entitled to organize as any other block of people in the Country, and certainly more so than a lot of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...million million years from now the sun will still be much the same as now, and the earth will still revolve around it. The year will be a little longer and the climate quite a lot colder, while the rich accumulated stores of coal, oil and forests will be long since burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of the Earth | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF AT HARVARD | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

...years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making it pay had the same sort of interest for Lowden that he found in reorganizing first a varied lot of industries as a lawyer, and then the government of Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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