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...exhibited by Mr. Harvey. (P. 9.) Monte San Nicholas-eternal tribute to the dead. (P. 15.) Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, eager to join with Einstein in debate. (P. 21.) Mr. Taft's reputation, deemed "spotless" even by sensational publishers. (P. 24.) Stambuliski-hoisting communism by its own petard. (P. 12.) Justice Holmes-radical! (P. 3.) The prospective canonization of the late Pope Pius X. (P. 19.) Jack Dempsey, coal-miner and coal operator. (P. 23.) The return of a Roosevelt to health and activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...Flanders and Belgium has rolled backward across the Rhine. The explosion of the "new gas" which Germans are said to have been preparing was quite as sudden as was the descent of the German devestation upon Dinant and Louvain in 1914. Oppau is hoist with Germany's own petard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nemeajs in Accident | 9/24/1921 | See Source »

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