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Word: presidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

The law which enabled the President to promote Pershing from captain to brigadier general has unfortunately been revoked-the law that "ave us such men as Pershing, Wood, Bell, runston. Now the Government can do nothing to Accelerate the promotion of a brilliant soldier it finds down the list but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

U. S. is not a criminal nation, President Hoover's declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. What is needed is less laws making us all "criminals."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Swift-tongued rumor had been busy before, anticipating a merger of banks in Boston, a merger in particular between Old Colony Trust Co. and First National Bank. Last week Philip Stockton, president of Old Colony, admitted that his company had entered merger discussions which had been broken off-and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: High-Grade Rumor | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

THE MODERN FAMILY-Ruth Reed- Knopf ($3). In academic circles ideas need not be new to be exciting. Despite some circumlocation, Author Reed, not original, has enough feminist and liberal passion to excite one way or another those who care about The Family. For instance, in a Southern university not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tribes, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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