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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of rubber planting within the area of the concessions granted has never been contemplated and certainly has never been discussed. . . . American financial interests have not only been associated with the Panama Corporation, but have had the fullest explanation given them of practically every step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fantastic Fears | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

There was the case of Schlesinger v. Wisconsin, in which was brought into question the constitutionality of a Wisconsin inheritance-tax law which classed as inheritances all gifts made within six years of the donor's death. The question the Court posed itself was whether it was reasonable to presume that all gifts made within six years of death were made in contemplation of death to evade the tax. The majority declared that the assumption was unreasonable, the law invalid. Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone dissented, saying the decision on reasonableness should rest with the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Definitions | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will leave this morning for Red Top, Conn. There he will confer with Coaches Haines and Brown on the advisability of having the Freshman eight row in the race for Junior University crews. The Freshman oarsmen will also be consulted on this question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BINGHAM LEAVES FOR RED TOP | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

...question remains-how came that tube of Pepsodent, and not another tube, to your bathroom shelf? It got there, obviously, because somehow Lord & Thomas had at least made you suspect that of all toothpastes Pepsodent is the one most imperative to your health and happiness. You may not remember but somewhere you read that you had a film on your teeth and that gritty Pepsodent was the thing which would polish that film away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...sharply whetted. When Mr. Russell, Britain's celebrated philosopher and mathematician, entered the field of psychology, it became apparent that he is no idle perfectionist but a thinker who refuses to shirk the humanistic implications of his theories. "What will he have to say about education?" was the question, underscored by the arrival of the Russells' two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Genteel Lady | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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