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Nominee Hoover made some history. He was the first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech No. 4 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

In polishing off the Liberals, Orator Baldwin popped an epigram: "The Labor creed is Socialism with the courage of its convictions, but modern Liberalism is Socialism without even the courage of its conviction."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley for Stability! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

"Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Longest Sisters | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

On November 12, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York, will become Archbishop of Canterbury. Like the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Primate Protested | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Strangely enough this astoundingly incautious orator was not a "Red." He is simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Treason to the King | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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