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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lily Whites." Upon how the G. O. P. treats the Negro in the South depends, to a large extent, the Negro vote in Northern States like Ohio and Illinois, where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P., South | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Coats: "The trained eye is caught at once by the rare lapels of the royal coats. Often these sections are hard and flat; but in the King's coats they turn over gently like a leaf or the petals of a flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Fashion v. Royal Style | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation." He was in the advertising business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard sense of humor is often tinged with sadness. Last week, Harvard men smiled melancholic smiles as they viewed a new issue of the Lampoon, Harvard's funnypaper. The Lampoon had "done it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment on the "inner college" plan The Lampoon also said the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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