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...have found TIME the server of all important National and International news. If I miss an issue the week seems unfinished. I write to request you bring the subject of American Embassy buildings in foreign lands up for discussion. You know of course, American officials have carried on in makeshift quarters in Tokyo since the 1923 earthquake. Both the British and American governments voted approximately one and half million dollars to rebuild their Embassies. The world-experienced Brit ish got busy-their Embassy is rising-it compliments the Japanese. The American Embassy after seven years seems to be still...
...that they make their own clothing or raise their own food. . . . Let's talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn...
...laws and ideas about sex as an extraordinary potpourri* obtained from savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should not be considered bound until her first...
...taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will be served by Associated Press wire service, to retain which franchise Publisher Thomason has been issuing a makeshift Daily Commercial Chronicle in the interim...
...artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition, he turned to near-beer as a makeshift, continued to hope for a return to the good days. He died, 92 years old, in 1927, left in his will a clause asking his heirs to carry on his business, and, "if legally possible [to carry it on] as formerly conducted by me." Last March George Ehret Jr., died...