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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Single Standard would have fortified me in my hour of waiting to get into the Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo's garments. I felt like a chump for standing as aforesaid. ROBERT EMMET CONNOLLEY New York City Do other readers agree? Disagree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Sometimes caught napping, TIME never sleeps. Let Subscriber Wendemuth burrow again into her piled-up TIMES, extract the issue of July 22, turn to p. 14, under department heading "Women," story headline "F. B. P. W. C." and read a 35-line report on B. & P. women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...another White House rule against pests became operative. Prof. Henry Flury, President of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, wrote President Hoover protesting his failure to receive a N. A. O. B. L. delegation (TIME, Aug. 19). Dr. Flury had released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President is entitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...General Andrews served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition from 1925 to 1927. Last fortnight he declined to comment on Mrs. Willebrandt's attack, explained he now never discusses Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Presently M. Briand gave an assurance that on the morrow, after consulting his political colleagues in Paris by wire, he would do what France has never done before : propose a definite date for the evacuation. Before M. Briand's morrow dawned fresh hurling of ultimata back and forth in the financial section of the Conference (see below) had so incensed French public opinion that the French Prime Minister was obliged to retreat. Calling personally on Dr. Stresemann he explained that "pour le moment, I can get no date to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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