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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

...ignore Utopia, thus offered on a platter, was impossible last week. Already resolutions endorsing the Soviet proposal had poured in from 124 prominent societies and political organizations in 13 countries. The Soviet Government had neatly placed the Commission in the difficult position of having to explain to the world why it could not favor "immediate and complete disarmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament Debate | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Five angry-eyed turkey gobblers (half as many as last year) arrived at the White House. The biggest, a 30-lb. creature from the North Platte Valley Co-operative Market Association of Nebraska, was elected, to rear its inverted bulk on the Presidential platter. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns of Boston were the only White House guests, so there was plenty for all.* Dinner was served in the evening after a day, more springlike than autumnal, during which President & Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box at Keith's Theatre and heard a sermon on "The Real Thanksgiving" by Rev. Jason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...civic sisters the country over, are dedicated to making politics "cleaner" and more reasonable, tried lately to elect a president. A Mrs. John Marshall Gallagher was a candidate. A Mrs. Hanna V. Imhof-despite gossip that she had said she would not have the presidency, even "on a silver platter"-was another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: God Made Us | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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