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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during all this period, even when it was the main theme of impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, its constitutionality was never tested in court. It still remains a moot question what the makers of the Constitution wanted done about removals, or granting, as seems to have been the case, that they did not consider the matter, what the Constitution implies about removals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tenure of Office | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

With the prospect of an early gen eral election, some speculation has been heard on the probable planks on which the Liberals will carry on their campaign. Three main issues have been named: 1) Tariff Re form, 2) Senate Reform, 3) Railway Freight Rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grit Administration | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

LOVES AND LOSSES OF PIERROT-William Griffith-Button ($2.00). The prose of this age is positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barren Leaves | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Died. General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...meeting was originally scheduled for 12.10 o'clock in the Parish House of the First Parish Church, Cambridge, but by 12 the room had become so crowded, that it was necessary to shift the whole meeting into the main church building, where the regular Sunday service had just come to an end. Speaking from the high church pulpit, Dean Pound addressed a crowd of over 600, made up for the most part of law school students, but also containing many women and older...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORD CROWD OUT TO PAY TRIBUTE TO POUND | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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