Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion picture camera. But last week, as he walked along Brule River with President Coolidge, a new duty came to him. The President pointed to a flotilla of canoes, said: "You are the only Navy man in my party. I'll make you admiral of the fleet." Soon Officer Johnson was seen scrubbing the President's favorite fishing canoe...
...Power Trust. He said he favored non-partisan support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election of the President and Vice President, "obliterating the useless and antiquated Electoral College." All this Senator Norris set forth in an open letter to a California friend, by way of letting people know that he was clambering...
...least a twelvemonth enemies of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French...
...John decrying all that Jesus himself abhorred. Wakened from his listless dreaming, by John's prediction that "one mightier than I cometh," he started out among humble villagers, bringing them a message of love far simpler to understand than the hair-splitting taboos of their priests. His magnetism soon drew twelve men as disciples, and together they wandered from village to village, humbly enjoying the success of the master's teachings and healings. This early, happy part of Jesus's life Ludwig presents in glowing contrast to the last tragic months of proud ambition, and violent vituperation...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...