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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Super-Magruder | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered an address, declared that: 1) manufacture exceeds agriculture in the South; 2) unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Up South | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets, but are alloted seats by order of classes immediately following applicants for the cheering section. The numerals 1928 and 1929, included in the announced draw, and the initial cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRATUM | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

...series of five "Open Nights" at the College Observatory, held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club, will open this evening with a lecture at the observatory by Dr. W. J. Fisher at 7.45 o'clock on "The Full Moon and the Eclipsed Moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Open Nights" Open | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...metropolitan newspaper yesterday declared that there was a law forbidding a Radcliffe student to walk home from Harvard Square with a gentleman if there was a full moon. A statement from more official Radcliffe sources branded this report as so much moonshine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food, Feeding, Dancing, Dress, Goings Out and Comings-In of Radcliffe Regulated by Rule--Full Moon Not Restricted | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

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