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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual Athenian bull, but a couple of oxen, and I shall not speak again till next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Profoundly Humiliated | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...mention this here without any intention of starting a polemic. What has happened? The Locar-noist nations arm themselves furiously by land and sea, indeed some of these nations have even dared to speak of the war of doctrine which their democracies should have waged against this irreducible Fascist Italy which is antidemocratic, antiliberal, antisocialist, anti-Masonic [applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Profoundly Humiliated | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Bishop William Lawrence '71, speaking in the afternoon, is the leader under whose guidance the campaign for the Business School was inaugurated four years ago. Professor E. F. Gay Hon. '18, who will also speak in the afternoon, was the first Dean of the School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker's Gift Presented to Harvard Today | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...communicate with him. That deep-rooted interest which graduates take in their university is a matter outside the ken of the undergraduate; but he has every reason to be grateful that after graduation there will be a medium through which not only will the University be able to speak to him, but he will be able to speak, if he so desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAST AND PRESENT | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...Hoover has said: "These Acadians are a wonderful people and they love this Evangeline country of theirs with all their heart and soul. Very few speak English and they are as proud as the forefathers who settled the Sugar Bowl 200 years ago. We are finding it the toughest sort of a job to convince them that when they go to a concentration camp they do not become objects of charity. They stay behind until the flood is in sight and even then they hesitate to take to the high places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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