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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Currently published is a book* which contains, besides a sketchy but competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
...Kent's daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is a sort of scorecard by which to tell the players. Political Behavior is a rulebook telling, for the benefit of a people whose political illusions are many, the rules by which the Great Game is played on a national scale...
Knowing the usual average of replies to any sort of publicity, we feel that this is a most unusual response and highly indicative of that factor in a publication that the advertising men call "reader confidence...
...investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded: "We are facing one of the greatest struggles in American history, the struggle between imperialism and democracy...
Osteopaths like to make signs-on office windows, in directories, on professional cards. Signs are the best means of showing the public that a new sort of medical practice has set itself staunchly up in U. S. life, and osteopaths have become skilled in their advertising use. But the finest sign that any osteopath had theretofore devised was a bronze one exposed at Kirksville, Mo., last week. It was fixed to a great boulder and lay hid under a cloth while several hundred U. S. osteopaths, at Kirksville for their 32nd convention, massed themselves before it. Two children dragged...