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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures for expenditure as distinguished from appropriations tell the same story. Aside from interest on the public debt which has been reduced by retirement of bonds or by refinancing at lower interest rate, the actual expenditures for governmental activities during the fiscal year ending 1928 were just $346,000,000 more than in President Coolidge's first year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upon the Steps . . . | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...York Herald Tribune, wrote last week a brusque review of He Understood Women (see THEATRE). Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure character called William G. Dowrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Time. New York Telephone Co. subscribers bought time, last week, at the rate of 5? a unit. They could lift the receiver, call Meridian 1212 and demand the correct time, paying the regular charge for a local call. On the first day of the new service, 10,246 subscribers paid $512.30 for the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Commodities | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Kansas. Clyde Martin Reed, Republican, publisher, railroad rate expert, and Chauncey B. Little, Democrat, lawyer, were nominated for Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Prof. Hatton's round table was only one of many. Dizzy was the rate with which all U. S. (and some foreign) affairs spun metaphorically round and round. Thus, for example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Charlottesville | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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