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Dates: during 1920-1929
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How many U. S. farmers actually read the bill, or read President Coolidge's veto message, will never be known. Historians, studying another debacle of agricultural legislation in the U. S., pointed out causes and clauses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fee, Fie, Foe, Farmers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

The presiding judge, Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Callaghan, pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Honest Grafter | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Roger Wethered is one of the best amateur golfers in England (British Amateur Champion 1923), and one of the most aristocratic. He is a friend of the Prince of Wales and often plays with him. Last week Roger Wethered got to the finals of the British Amateur at Prestwick, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Prestwick | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Incensed against censors, many persons have pointed out that if legal authorities are permitted to judge of obscenity in contemporary works of art, there is no consistency in depriving them of the right to pass upon old works of art which are still in circulation. Thus it would be logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Representatives of the Federal Trade Commission were working in the offices of large public utility holding and service companies at Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago last week, seeking data on the growth of capital assets and capital liabilities of holding companies and management groups, their methods of issuing securities, their intercompany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Twelfth Billionary | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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