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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The History. Utterly out of proportion to Haiti's size and importance are the spectacular dramatics of its history. In 1492 Columbus discovered it, marveled at its extraordinary beauty and fertility, bartered beads and gaudy bracelets for pretty gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honest History | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Stethoscope scientists swarmed to Portland, Ore., last week to attend the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thoracoplasty | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Smart Selling | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

¶. The Post Roads Bill-$150,000,000 pro-rated among the States in proportion to their own outlays.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bills | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Bishop Rummel, whose churchly duties have hitherto been confined to metropolitan regions, must have had strange feelings of dismay mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manhattan to Omaha | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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