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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes. See that elderly man, with a sort of hard-shell face? That is Snell, chairman of the Rules Committee. He is a red flag to the radicals. They think he is the special representative of the interests. Over there is Martin Madden, who has the difficult job of chairman of the Appropriations Committee. There are a lot more of course. Will Wood, who runs the Republican Congressional Committee, and Oldfield, who occupies the same post for the Democrats, and others who cut a figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Wigs | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Santa Ysabel. Señor Rodrigo Octavio, the Brazilian President of the U. S.-Mexican Special Claims Commission, held with the support of the Mexican Commissioner, Fernando Gonzales Roa, that no indemnity shall be paid to the relatives of 15 U. S. mining operatives massacred in January, 1916, near Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Judge Ernest B. Perry, the U. S. Commissioner, being thus outvoted, rendered a dissenting minority opinion. The commission forthwith adjourned until September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Notes, May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

MUSICAL Song and joke books of special excellence are these: Sunny, The Vagabond King, By the Way, Pina fore, The Student Prince, Tip-Toes, Cocoanuts, Raquel Meller, lolanthe and No, No, Nanette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be made up of the following: Leo Francis Daley '27 of Andover, James Lawrence Pool '28 of New York City, Winslow Carlton '29, of New York City, Theodore William Moore 2L., of Milo, Me., and D. C. Hunt, a special student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOODBRIDGE BECOMES UNION VICE-PRESIDENT | 5/15/1926 | See Source »

...they are, however, three large Chinese frescoes which have been acquired within the past few months can be seen at the Museum. One of these was given by Herberi Strauss '03 and another by certain friends of the Fogg Museum. They have not yet been made the subject of special investigation but are thought to date from the thirteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGDON WARNER WRITES ACCOUNT OF FOGG MUSEUM EXPEDITION TO CHINA | 5/13/1926 | See Source »

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