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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peeking | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peeking | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...happened politically (in terms of the cartoon) was this: the Democratic gallant had, at the valet's suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peeking | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...voted for a motion censuring the Government's ineffectiveness in dealing with the tragic national problem of unemployment. Although Conservatives number 412, the Labor motion was defeated by an adverse vote of only 331. Explanation: Even Conservatives are becoming worried at Mr. Baldwin's failure to reduce the number of the unemployed, which now stands at 1,242,000, an increase in the last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Pigfancier v. Planejancier | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Herman Müller announced, for the first time, suspension of the annual army maneuvers scheduled to take place next fall. Simultaneously a letter sped from Wilhelm II to the Kaiser Wilhelm Association at Berlin, stating that the onetime All Highest War Lord still envisions "a day when the problem may arise of liberating the German Fatherland by reestablishing it under its Kaiser and hereditary Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Paradox | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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