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American business experience includes many panics and crises as well as booms and periods of prosperity, and it is a matter of common knowledge that business prospects are apt to look rosiest just before the storm. Hence, many far-sighted business men have for some time been trying to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business: The Current Situation: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

The extreme to which football as a commercial spectacle can be carried was demonstrated yesterday by an announcement from the athletic committee of the Philadelphia sesquicentennial celebration to the effect that the committee is planning what will amount to a national football tournament for early December, 1926. These plans conflict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MENACE TO FOOTBALL | 10/7/1925 | See Source »

The City of Rome is a coastwise steamer and she plies northward from Savannah to New York and Boston. On a fine clear night last week she steamed out of Long Island Sound into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Of Block Island | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

ķA 100-pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

To a short-sighted man, this desired inclination toward what is commonly called "world peace" may seem a thing, like the tropism of green twigs toward sunlight, so natural and to-be-expected as to render its discussion and "promotion" rather vapid solemnities.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Edinburgh | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

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