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...From National Democratic Headquarters, publicity material has been issuing for weeks, discounting "Coolidge prosperity," citing figures on unemployment, on declining orders, on bankruptcies. Last week President Coolidge announced that he had been informed business is as good now as this time last year-better steel, better trade movements, slacker department store business but, generally speaking, no lack of prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Slacker | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Unfair newspapers headlined "Vote Slacker" when Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, suffragette and political matron, announced that she had never voted and never would until U. S. women should "place in the field" a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Belmont did not say whether or not the candidate would have to be a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Slacker | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...variation of a few hundredths of 1% in the glucose of the blood may make the difference between cowardice and courage, may determine whether a man shall be shot as a slacker or medaled as a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Welsh | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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