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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exactly the sort of man we do not need, do not want and can well do without. It would be a great satisfaction to me if all aliens with the sentiments of Busch were deported forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...thought he meant that he wanted to be a house painter. He was referred to a job and when he got there he discovered that it was a job painting a tenement house. Handicapped by lack of funds and little knowledge of English, he was compelled to do this sort of work until he saved money enough to go into business for himself. This eventually led him into the real estate business. This "Polish Jew" is now, at the age of 44, the most romantic and one of the biggest real estate operators in New York, having handled deals during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

Throughout England the famed "spirit of Locarno" showed signs of becoming a sort of international "Pollyanna" at the hands of unoriginal writers who did their best to grind it into a threadbare catch phrase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Threadbare Phrase | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...find the right sort of man, my offer still holds good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bluffs Called | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...will come to the U. S. on a "temporary appointment" renewable indefinitely every six months. Because M. Caillaux is generally thought in France to have cut his visit much too short for successful negotiation with Secretary Mellon, it is widely rumored that Senator Bérenger comes as a sort of "permanent diplomatic conversationalist" to keep the French debt negotiations amicably simmering until they can be definitely pinned down to a fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ambassador | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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