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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT, FANCY AND OPINION | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...found I had a situation dominated by thought instead of emotion," he said. "The music would have nothing to say. . . . There was no way I could think my way back into the unsettled emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lost in Thought | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...native opera No. 11 on the shelf and begun over again. He had heard of a plot "in a novel" and was working on that, with its author. No. he wouldn't say what novel, which novelist, but the time and setting were "here and now" and the novelist is not well known. But, added Native Taylor, "He will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lost in Thought | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Money, Anti-Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Federal Reserve v. Speculation | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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