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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your determination to keep TIME the short, snappy publication it now is. CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH West Palm Beach, Fla. Sirs: Your announcement to the effect that TIME will limit its pages to 80 per issue is wise. The issues have been few and far between during the past five years which I have not cover-to-covered. Incidentally, such a limit makes each advertising page more valuable...
...hardly died away when the faint voice of Generalissimo Smoot was heard. Asked he: Had not Candidate Herbert Hoover promised the American people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
Hard has been the lot of Britain's Conscientious Objectors for the past eleven years. Sneeringly referred to as "Conchies" by robust Britons who had no objections to the War, they have been barred from civil service positions. "Conchies" already employed by the government have been denied promotion...
Grandi. First of the seven is theatrically handsome Dino Grandi-he of the luminous eyes, by turns smouldering or aflame-he of the virile, bursting beard. Appointed Foreign Minister last week, Signer Grandi was promoted from Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. During the past few years he has been the actual representative of Italy before the League of Nations and at important international gatherings like The Hague Conference. He has gone everywhere while Il Duce has not stirred out of Italy-doubtless fearing assassination. Thus Signor Grandi has been for a long time de facto Foreign Min- ister...
...hoped that the number of players in the orchestra can be larger than in past years. If the large turn-out from the Class of 1932 is any indication, the incoming Freshman Class of 1933 should provide a large number of new musicians...