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Died. Senator Selden P. Spencer, 63, junior U. S. Senator from Mis- souri; in Washington, following an operation for hernia (see CONGRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 25, 1925 | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Denver, John W. Davis, going into new country, began to use new weapons, although he did not abandon the oil scandals, the Republican tariff. His first topic was irrigation and reclamation. He cited the mis- fortune which has overtaken many settlers on irrigation projects; told how, in many cases, settlers were in dire distress because the Government's estimated cost of reclaiming their lands had been greatly increased by the time the actual project was completed. He quoted the Republican platform which recommended the curtailing of irrigation projects to prevent overproduction, and then exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...seen walking through a poor part of London (where he lives) dressed "disgracefully " in an ill-fitting suit with baggy trousers, a mis-shapen soft felt hat perched upon his massive head, carrying a portfolio of papers, nodding absently to neighbors as if he were lost in some abstruse theological question, as he marches with his characteristic swinging gait to St. Stephen's Club opposite the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Up One | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Pearl Ginsberg ("Pearl Shepard"), motion picture actress, to Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, heir to the Egyptian throne. Accompanied by her mother, Mis? Ginsberg and the Prince sailed on the Aquitania with the intention of being married in Alexandria, if they obtain King Fuad's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1923 | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...suspect that it is being treated to a dose of sarcasm. If we were "Life" or even Lampy, we should try to give payment in kind; but being only a newspaper we must reply on blunter methods. In passing, it might be remarked that partial quotation is virtually mis-quotation:--"Life's" summary of the CRIMSON's point of view is accurate, but it is incomplete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALT FOR A BIRD'S TAIL | 5/31/1923 | See Source »

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