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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Read TIME from cover to cover ?the pages following this quiz as -well as those preceding. Then return to p. 33. Quiz yourself. Normal persons should answer correctly at least 20 questions. 1) What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Sirs: Yes, Mr. Kastner is right in suggesting [TIME, March 22, LETTERS] a reference to the source after each question in Quiz. WILL C. MATTHEWS Omaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1926 | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

TIME from cover to cover. Then quiz yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 5, 1926 | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...TIME entered the market with a new sophistication process? I refer to the recent Quiz section. Or have the Editors carried over collegiate quiz-taking habits and now wish to paternalize their helpless readers? There are too many vital and pertinent items of news interest for your able but caustic causerie to permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Read TIME from cover to cover. Then turn to p. 33, quiz yourself. In accordance with a suggestion by Joseph Kastner of the New York WORLD (TIME, March 22, LETTERS), the approximate pages upon which answers can be run down are indicated in this week's Quiz. Subscribers who concentrate when they read will not need this crutch. 1) In the recent newspaper straw ballot, the total vote was about how many to one against prohibition? (See PROHIBITION.) 2) What nation was nominally responsible for deadlocking the League Council at Geneva? (See THE LEAGUE.) 3) What magazine for April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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