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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever increasing flow of British people into Australia, but the flow must be conditioned upon its quality and upon our power of absorption. . . . Australia is not going to undermine her national health by lowering the standards of fitness of immigrants. . . ." Loyal citizens of the Empire put quickly out of mind this undignified squabble between two of His Majesty's Prime Ministers. Hopefully they turned to consider two additional and alternative measures designed to reduce unemployment which were proposed, last week, to the House of Commons by harassed Stanley Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Pigfancier v. Planejancier | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...border of what is perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight reigns. Jungle. The mass of tangled, choking creepers must be chopped through at every step, and actually closes behind the explorer within 48 hours, so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesties to Congo | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...minority side of the argument was that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since Lindbergh had Paris become so worked up over an American phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tilden Ousted | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...three years, Psychiatrist James Lincoln McCartney watched, studied, ministered to the missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Morbid Missionaries | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

News of the golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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