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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, solved all the country's economic and international problems. He was, he said, the originator of the so-called Dawes Reparations Plan. He, Louis Henry Francisco, was, he insisted, the man of the hour, the long-sought, the logical, the "most available" candidate right there before them in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parleys | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...There is no criticism of any person or official. There is simply a criticism of bureaucratic methods and red tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Magruder Incident | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...efficiency of this method of registration which is at once so simple for the student and, it is presumed, satisfactory for the University office, is attested by the comparative paucity of errors. It is not at all unusual in other institutions, whose systems are more onerous, for a person to wait as long to rectify a mistake as to make one. Here a student may be as much subject to changes of mind but he can console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether or not he will like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SIMPLE LIFE | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

...would appreciate opportunity of proving our statements to you if you are interested, but we do not believe this is necessary as we believe that this attitude as expressed in this story was unintentional or was probably written by a person who was guessing at the facts instead of going to the extent of getting at the truth before committing such libelous statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Last week Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine felt like a person who, upon making some sound in the presence of a high-strung friend, is suddenly turned upon and bitterly accused of willful noisiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cotton Storm | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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