Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said President Hoover, "gave my views [at the opening of the current special session of congress]. . . . I then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties...
...sufficient of a fog to make Philip Snowden, the Crippled Chancellor, hero of the pan-European money-squabble at The Hague (TIME, Aug. 12 to Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur and nurse, having broken her ankle on vacation...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer will names be withheld...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer will names be withheld...
...Vagabond announces a selection of lectures which seem of general interest. The Vagabond endeavors to make the range of his recommendations wide, and to include representative lectures in the fields of Science, Literature, Philosophy, Music, History, and Fine Arts. In general, the Vagabond suggests those lectures which, without requiring special knowledge of the subject matter, promise to be of value and interest to the casual listener...