Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talking about possible Cabinet appointments (TIME, Jan. 28), you say: ''Not to be anything: any woman. Reason: Mr. Hoover wants in his Cabinet persons of wide political experience, which no woman...
...doubling and a more than doubling of each and every U. S. citizen's income tax. For the enemies of Prohibition had occasion to demonstrate that adequate enforcement would cost a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) a year. And the friends and promoters of Prohibition had every reason to assure each other that?cost what it might ?Congress would vote all monies needed for this cause...
Serena Blandish. It is the conviction of stupid people that only that which is solemn may be profound and that to seem satirical is to be unsympathetic. Partly for this reason, Serena Blandish will doubtless be misappreciated and en joyed by the well-decorated people who will go to see it. Its inadequacy as a play, however, is not caused by a fallacy in attitude...
...Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud had pledged eternal friendship to the Friend of Small Peoples, had royally entertained him at Jiddah...
...chief reason that the society is driving its information at women is that more women than men die of cancer, "on account of the part which women play in the reproduction of the race." Early recognition and prompt treatment of cancer is always of inestimable value, particularly in breast cancer. The burden of caring for the sick and aged falls chiefly upon women, and for this reason they should know that cancer is not contagious, and that many of the common beliefs regarding its cause and treatment are untrue. Because they are so often the guardians of the family...