Word: matters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine to 80 pages. You can imagine what I thought of your courage when I opened the Oct. 7 issue and found the last page numbered 84. Have you . . . "weaseled...
...vote. Furthermore, Utah's Reed Smoot (opposed) announced that the amendment would be voted upon again when the tariff bill is reported out by the Committee of the Whole. If the amendment stands, Customs officials can still bar "indecent pictures and transparencies," contraceptives, and books or other printed matter advocating forcible resistance to U. S. law or threatening the persons of U. S. citizens...
That the issue of Philippine independence-an issue raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects...
...matter what has developed in Berlin," said Mayor Boess, "I am involved in no scandal whatever. I fully intend to proceed with my original itinerary which provides for my sailing from New York on the Bremen, Oct. 24." He picked up his cards and proceeded to meld...
...point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe one or two, will...