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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely promising young Congressman expects to be lionized and fêted when, in Chicago by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-Cormick, Mrs. Potter Palmer or other Tycoon's lady. But a third, second or first secretary of almost any embassy may aspire to these honors. They were bestowed in Chicago, last week, by Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Palmer upon the Second Secretary of the Persian Embassy, one Prince* Mozaffar Firouz. The Secretary-Prince is slender, with large nose and an intelligent expression. Obliging, he read to smart Chicagoans a lecture: The Regeneration of Persia. Tidily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Entertainments | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quaker Revival | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Back 22 175 5-11 Worcester Gildea, J. H. '31 Center 20 175 6 Boston Latin Gilligan, T. W. '31 Quarterback 20 175 6 Exeter Grant, F. S. Jr. '29 Back 23 175 6 Huntington Graves, G. L. '31 Back 21 180 6 Browne & Nichols Greeley, D. Mc. '31 Back 20 160 5-11 Lexington H. Guarnaccia, D. '29 Back 21 185 5-10 Wakefield H. Harding, J. M. Jr. '31 End 20 175 6 Exeter Harper, W. R. '30 Back 19 168 5-9 Ottumwa H., Ia. Huguley, A. W. Jr. '31 Back 19 185 6-2 Milton Mason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SQUAD STATISTICS | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...middle classes who reflected upon the matter appeared to feel that the Holy Bible still offers a sufficient choice of Gospels. But of course the London mob, the lower classes, rushed to attend the evangelistic First Night of Aimee Semple McPherson. They 'ad 'card vaguely that Missis Mc-Pherson came from 'Ollywood; and, 10,000 strong, they packed and sweated in, to learn about sinnin' from 'er. Somehow plump Mrs. McPherson's soaring contralto failed to please. Perhaps the trouble was her accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Poor Aimee | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools were ruled: Modern History, by Hayes and Moon; Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been criticized as an influence against childish patriotism was Gordy's History of the United States; from this was deleted a picture called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: History | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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