Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your newsmagazine satisfies a long-felt want. You have the ability to inject a human interest into the dry current event-items. You present the characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax in your issue...
Conflict of Principle. The Administration classes this sort of proposition loosely as price fixing (TIME, Jan. 4), holds that it will not benefit the farmers permanently, holds that somebody will have to stand a great financial loss?and does not want the Government to be the loser. Whether or not these measures would leave the Government to pay the bill depends on their details?not yet announced by Messrs. Capper and Dickinson. Whether the Administration would permit private organizations to take a risk which they regard as unsound for the Government to assume, is a matter of policy not announced...
...fixing.or its equivalent?some sort of export device to get rid of the farm surplus?the proposal of the farm bloc. They argue that prices are low because all the farm produce in which there is a surplus is sold at European prices. They say let a barrier be put up to maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will...
Owing to the holidays we were unable to say a word of praise last week for "Three Faces East" which was a bully good secret service picture. That sort of thing is apt to be either very obvious or very much involved in movie form, but the almost perfect acting of Clive Brooke and Jette Gondal made this famous stage success tremendously exciting...
...conference scored racial discrimination, called for the abolition of compulsory military training in land grant institutions, exhibited sentiment calling for personal non-participation in future war of any sort, advocated a free pulpit in the expression of opinion on labor matters attacked Greek Letter Societies, voted for the United States entry into the League of Nations and the World Court, listened to villifications of contemporary religious education, listened to reports attacking the American Defense Society the National Security League, and the Klan, and more astonishing still, voted to withdraw support from foreign missions so that the money might be used...