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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Living in the interior of Brasil as I am, TIME is absolutely invaluable to me, an American. It is too of extreme importance in the education of my children-particularly the three oldest of five, my two daughters age 13 and 14 and son 11. It will be of invaluable assistance when they go to school and college in the States to have been able to keep in accurate touch with the affairs of their country as well as foreign news of importance...
...Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every effort to ally himself with the western Mohammedan war lords, Feng's oldest and most effective enemies...
...Philippine climate and the health of Mrs. Davis, who is now recovering from a protracted illness at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Washington society was ready to believe that another factor had also weighed. There is a persistent report that Alice Davis, the new Governor's oldest daughter, is informally engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's younger...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...
Discrepancies might have been accepted without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...