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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred thousand square miles is a lot of land. It is six times the size of New York State. It is bigger than Texas, Chile or Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Free Land | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Governors of eleven Western States met at Salt Lake City. To them President Hoover sent Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon with a 2,000-word message, containing a proposal that these 302,000 sq. mi. be turned back, free, to States in which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Free Land | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

The national significance of this Camp-bell-Whalen incident seemed to be that it was the first concrete test-and failure-of the Hoover policy of Federal and local co-operation on Prohibition enforcement (TIME, July 29 et seq.). New York is the largest and wettest of many a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buck-Passing | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: They Act Alike | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Potent is the Republican National Committeeman from New York for, above all others, he must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the wives of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dewey & the Widow Pratt | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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