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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Female members of the national committees are chosen by the male committeemen from their States with the idea of giving themselves two votes instead of one. The most desirable quality in the female politician is docility. . . . Contrary to precedent Mrs. Pratt was not chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not...

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

Before the week was out 5,000 British troops commanded by Brigadier General William George Shedden Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islam v. Israel | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

What seemed to have happened was that the Soviet and Chinese ambassadors to Germany had at last come to an understanding after nearly a month of secret parleys (TIME, Aug. 5). In Berlin, both diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Peace | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

*Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

"Nor could it be denied that the Harvard president was worthy of the honor. When he started speaking, every ear was attentive. Speaking extemporaneously, scorning alike the notes and the patent platitudes which had more than once preceded him, he talked on a level which was as lofty as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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