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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was seen to leave his executive office, clad in his usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats were reviewed on the south lawn. Followed a luncheon, with the Secretaries of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Camp Trouble | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...handsome crier is named Thomas E. Waggaman. His admonishment, uttered after the Justices are seated, has been preceded by the flash of a light over the courtroom's side door. He has banged his gavel for all present to rise as the Justices march in. Now all may sit, at Crier Waggaman's next gavel-bang, and Justice takes its course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: God Save the U. S. | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...public acts and motives of the illustrious dead properly belong to posterity. . . . I herewith present my testimony in disproof of the charge of Professor Pitkin's anonymous informant and of the Professor's pseudo-psychological deductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Wilson's Infirmity | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Wheat. To the wheat-marketing associations engaged in organizing the National Farm Grain Growers Association, the Board expressed hope that they would hurry up, present a final plan for the Board to approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Draft Man | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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