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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Materially speaking, his book which has won the recognition of the Book of the Month Club, is twenty-five pages short of the famous four hundred pages, the commonly accepted threshold beyond which boredom may set in on the average reader...

Author: By H. M. R. jr., | Title: Epic Breadth and Grandure | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

October 19 is the date set for the first of the well known "open nights" at the Harvard College Observatory. The opening lecture is to be on "The Rotation of the Earth and its Peculiarities" given by Professor E. W. Brown, of Yale University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Open Night" Held October 19 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...your Sept. 24 issue a Mr. L. F. Southwick seemed annoyed by Governor Smith's 'poisonal' and 'detoimined' remarks. Would he purchase an expensive loud speaker and entirely ignore looking at what there is under the cover of the radio set itself? I advise him never to examine a man's tongue to determine what is on his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...California Deciduous Fruit Case"-90 Western railroads trying to have an I. C. C. rate-reduction on fruit set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...thinking it is not sufficient for the President of the United States to communicate his views in writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cause and Effect | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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