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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 50, lawyer and judge, no Southern demagog, respected by his colleagues, no less obscure nationally than was Senator Harding in 1920, no more an "innovation" than any other "favorite son" candidate, Walter Franklin George of Georgia will help Southern Democrats mark time. Whether or not they profit by the experiment, he will profit by the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Booms | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Politics & Diplomacy. Already Banker Herrick had served six times as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He now laid his head together with that of President-Maker Mark Hanna and was soon elected Governor of Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cleveland in Paris | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Significance. The life of Jesus Christ is read most often in the biographies that four men wrote after his death.* Three of these?the "gospels" of Matthew, Mark, and Luke?obviously derive in part from the same sources, in part from each other. The history written by John is a different story, leaving out much fact that is in the others, adding much theology that they lack. There are other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jesus Christ | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...early days of University baseball, the clash was welcomed as an annual event. If the practice game is arranged this year, it will mark a renewal of the tradition and will give the Harvard team an opportunity of facing the Hornsby-bolstered Tribesmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BATTERS MAY FACE BOSTON BRAVES IN SPRING | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...seems, from what Dr. Ludwig himself feels, that in the near future, provided his production remains up to the mark, he will be hard put to it to find a subject for biographical portrait painting. For with the spread of democracy, says Dr. Ludwig, there will no longer be any first class geniuses. Genius will be, so to speak, a community chest from which the expenses of progress will be paid, taking the burden off the individual, and spreading it about upon the shoulders of humanity at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LEVELLER | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

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