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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of the state board examinations were very gratifying. Again this year none of our graduates failed to pass their licensing examination in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...incredible that the United States should enforce against Europeans a visa charge when they are rapidly doing away with their charge on its. An excellent opportunity is now given us to prove that America's vaunted altruistic leadership is not ill founded. Let us not allow it to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASS THE PORT | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report on to the Cabinet. Meanwhile the formula is conveniently shelved and thus kept out of the political campaigns that are swaying English public opinion in preparation for the coming General Parliamentary Election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Peace in Peril | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...London is almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone who has been Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Class v. Mass | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with Mr. Rea, Builder Lindenthal came even closer to the realization of his ambition when he bridged Hell Gate, to the north, with a thousand-foot arch of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 40 Years | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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