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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress. So it was with Rear Admiral William Pickett Magruder, whom Secretary of the Navy Wilbur lately silenced and sidetracked for his public allegations of Navy extravagance and inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.). Last week Admiral Magruder was called before the House Naval Affairs Committee and told to speak freely. Admiral Magruder spoke (see ARMY & NAVY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...dinner without saying whether she would leave the money or not. In the morning, she gave the Lieutenant a thousand gulden. She said: ". . . 'You gave me only ten. Do you still remember? . . . Ten gulden- was plenty. In fact, too much.' Her eyes held his. 'To speak accurately, it was precisely ten gulden too much!'" Three hours later, Bogner, still impecunious, and Rasda's uncle, whose wife had sent with him eleven thousand gulden for her inamorata, called at Rasda's rooms; Bogner saw a thousand gulden, a crumpled scrap of paper on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daybreak | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Whatever the necessity that makes the chosen few those who secure tickels within and hour of their release, opportunity is now extended even to the tardy and the unlucky. On Christmas Eve Professor Copeland will step to the microphone and speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARIEL | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...Kallen of the New School for Social Research will speak on "Palestine and Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menorah Society Meets Tonight | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...speak freely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

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