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...Seņor Calles is, it is conceded that Seņor Obregon is bigger. Is Plutarco Elias Calles to be, therefore, a puppet-President? The odds seem to favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Mexico | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

Meantime, preparations were in train for the election to the Presidency of Marshal Tuan who is, apparently, to become the puppet President of the "Chinese Christian Soldier."His Japanese sympathizers are now heralded with widespread delight, although such was not always the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peace? | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...stoop so low as to give you any science." Evidently claptrap is contagious, for since when have educators withheld the material body of knowledge from their students? Under German tutelage, universities became gristmills of fact, which ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability to grasp and reason with experiential fact is supposed to be developed by the testing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOMERANG CLAPTRAP | 11/1/1924 | See Source »

...remaining ten college comics which will send delegates to Harvard next months are the Black and Blue Jay from Johns Hopkins, the Brown Jug, the Chanticleer from Rutgers, the Columbia Jester, the Lehigh Burr, the Penn Punch Bowl, the Pitt Panther, from the University of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the Royal Gaboon of Carnegie Tech, and the Yale Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY PLAYS HOST NEXT MONTH TO COLLEGE COMICS | 11/1/1924 | See Source »

...Never has history shown a mon arch more deceitful and less powerful than the cruel and faithless puppet of the Spanish throne. Men are judged by their company. Alfonso's greatest friend is the only man who surpasses him in ignominy, if not in stupidity - Primo Rivera. He is a companion in the King's debauch and has dirtied the uniform in every kind of adventure and every haunt of vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royalty Attacked | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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