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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, convinced that the Interstate Commerce Commission was a sluggish body which sadly required verve. It had taken the Commission three years to fix the cost of mail transportation. At the end of this time the Commission had judged that the government owed railroads $45,000,000 for previous service. The President stated that he had objected to this decision, had refused payments. The question had been carried to the Supreme Court. This difficulty would have been avoided, said the President, if the Commission had been more expeditious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...more northerly Birmingham district. Indeed body lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health officers found cases popping up in isolated places, without traceable association with a previous case and without subsequent secondary or contact cases. So people have not been infecting other people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Typhus | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Some stayed to mutter about a Booth promise broken. From the Booth camp had come word the previous day that no legal action would be taken. Some went away with the feeling of having been tricked into impotency. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went into the adjoining room, lay down, and, in the torture of a sudden attack of acute indigestion, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death & Salvation | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...would they be failures? In a previous article the writer stated that there are certain groups in Harvard College, among which is the one with the social complex. This group will support college dances either through a spirit of tradition or a desire to let the "girl back home" get a view of Harvard College glory. The Freshman Jubilees and the Junior Proms are indeed sorry specimens of Harvard glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Proposed Solution | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...advertised. No matter how carefully it conforms to ethical and artistic standards a campaign's success cannot be claimed until the sales records are used as proof. The correspondence of this measure of success with that of the Bok standards is apparent to anyone who examines the list of previous winners. Business is not in the habit of seeking more advanced standards without some practical motive, and it is a tribute to the judgement of Mr. Bok that his principles are finding such justification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOAL TO GO | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

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