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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Pershing has been giving some good advice to the Military Committee of Congress. However displeasing his opinions may be to the Baker March combination, he undoubtedly speaks the mind of the whole country when he declares against a regular army of a half-million men. Half that number, General Pershing thinks, would be sufficient for all probable needs if some scheme of general military training is devised. --Boston Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/5/1919 | See Source »

...million-a-month magazine may get the best writers for its readers, but the University's twice-a-month periodical surely gets the best of Mr. Hearst's writers--gets them for good and plenty, as one might say. For with clever burlesque the Lampoon trails "Cosmo" with a deadly accuracy for the latter's winning weaknesses...

Author: By N. R. Ohara ., | Title: "Cosmopolitan" Satirized in Lampy's Latest Effort | 11/4/1919 | See Source »

...Harrison Fisher's illustrating as Bud-of-the-same-family-name might do, Mr. Gross has given a drawing that faithfully pretends to be the real thing. On the strength of its cover alone, Lampy could go on sale at all news-stands this week and hit the million circulation mark itself...

Author: By N. R. Ohara ., | Title: "Cosmopolitan" Satirized in Lampy's Latest Effort | 11/4/1919 | See Source »

...wager of several hundred thousand dollars was recently made in New York that that city would lead Boston at the finish of the drive by a million dollars, the loser paying the money to the fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Endowment Fund Has Reached $8,182,114 Total, or 54 per cent | 10/28/1919 | See Source »

University Has Two Million Books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S LARGEST LIBRARY OF DRAMA IS AT HARVARD | 10/16/1919 | See Source »

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