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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week journeyed to Washington, politely presented themselves at the White House office, asked for five minutes of President Hoover's time. Secretary George Akerson eyed them sharply, asked who they were, what they wanted. They explained: they represented a national association opposed to blue laws. Leading them was Spencer M. de Golier, thrice Mayor of Bradford, Pa., Vice President of N. A. O. B. L. They had read about how a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance had called last month upon President Hoover to urge him to support blue law legislation for Washington (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No More Pests | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall be non-intoxicating in fact; 2) it shall be exclusively for home use . . . 3) it shall not be sold or delivered except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farmers' Friend | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week a book was published which, could he have foreseen its elegance, would have delighted that boy. Its title, boldly stamped in gold upon a black cover, is the boy's name: T. M. CLELAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cleland's Book | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: August Forecast | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

While the "49ers" were waiting, the Committee which had judged the papers until 3 a. m., called in five boys for a brief chat that seemed to have no significance. Actually, it was to decide by personal impression the outcome of a practical tie. To Wilbur Brotherton Huston, 16, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Olympia (Wash.), went the award that meant four years full scholarship at any institution he will choose. So pleased was Inventor Edison with his test's success that additional prizes were given, going to "Connecticut," "Pennsylvania," "New Mexico," "Indiana," and consisting of four years' tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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