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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...take this as a personal insult. I have worked for the Republican Party for five years, and, if I may say so, have had some success in getting-out-the-vote. My husband, a Democrat, has failed utterly in trying to do the same for his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...funding to income-tax payers, private and corporate. Senator McKellar had finally introduced a bill which would automatically put all refunds under the immediate control of the Board of Tax Appeals, which is a quasi-judicial and not an executive arm of government. This was as much as to say that Mr. Mellon's Bureau of Internal Revenue could not be trusted. Nothing could be more insulting to a man whose greatest pride is his integrity and the integrity of those under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Since Hamilton | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...much playing for high stakes. Today the Syndicate carries on under M. Zografos, the "other Greek," and M. Couloumidjian, a compatriot and relative of Armenian novelist "Michael Arlen" (Dikran Kuyumjian). Last week the physicians who attended Europe's prince of gamblers concealed the cause of Death, refused to say whether he had indeed died of "gambler's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Enemy of Women | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Another misstatement is in the first paragraph of your editorial. You say that they (President Lowell and I) are agreed that drinking and the sale of liquor have gone on practically undiminished: I do not agree to any such statement. It can scarcely be inferred from President Lowell's statement that "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished the saloon; it has diminished the absence from the factory of workmen through drink, the waste of their wages on liquor, and the consequent suffering of their families." How could these things be if the drinking of liquor has gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fallacy of Faith | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

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