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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earlier President Coolidge had delivered his message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 17). It was regarded as "the Republican platform for 1924." But Senator Johnson is his chief opponent for that candidacy. His speech is the alternative platform for his Party next Fall. One platform or the other?in its main points?it is almost certain...
...Ford doesn't like McAdoo and doesn't want to see him in the White House. And yet, curiously enough, one of the main purposes each has had in wanting power is the same with both men. Ford thinks the railroads are badly managed and badly operated, and financed more in the interest of the financiers than in the interest of the stockholders or the public. And Ford, thinking this, would like to try his own hand at running the railroad show...
Meanwhile, the Treaty was reported to be divided into four main parts: 1) France pledges to stand by the execution of the Treaties of St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly. Czecho-Slovakia pledges aid in the execution of the Treaty of Versailles; 2) Mutual pledges of support in case of aggression; 3) Agreement by both nations to abide by the Covenant of the League of Nations; 4) Articles concerning an economic accord...
...view of biological science, and particularly to the theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines it has passed out of the realm of theory into that of fact. Evidence for it is far stronger than in Darwin's day, and we know more about heredity today than Darwin ever dreamed...
Mesopotamia. The joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania under C. Leonard Woolley resumed work at Ur of the Chaldees. The Temple of the Moon God, dating from about 3200 B. C., discovered last year, and only partly cleared, will be the main object of attack. Cuneiform tablets from Ur are arriving in Philadelphia. The U. of P. Museum goes halves with the British Museum on the finds. Dr. George B. Gordon and Sir Frederick Kenyon, the respective directors, shook dice to divide the booty...