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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West re-scan the article and observe that TIME spoke of Secretary of Interior Roy O. West's "past affiliations and investments" when stating the consensus of opinion that "it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would not be confirmed." This consensus having been reversed by the Senate (TIME, Jan. 28), congratulations to Secretary West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...following article, written by William Leonard Langer '15, assistant professor in the Department of History, the writer discusses Mussolini and the revolt against liberalism, a subject on which he recently spoke before the Massachusetts League of Women Voters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLDS FASCIST SYSTEM CANNOT BE PERMANENT | 1/30/1929 | See Source »

Thus, last week, spoke Alfred Emanuel Smith, over the radio to the nation. He used the same microphone tha had carried his last campaign speech, proved himself again a dominating, if retired, Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Deficit | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racketeer | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction sentence. Lest any feel that Mrs. Miller had been too severely punished. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, spoke up for Methodism. Said he: "Our only regret is that the woman was not sentenced to life imprisonment before her ten children were born. When one has violated the Constitution four times, he or she is proved to be an habitual criminal and should be segregated from society to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: From And After | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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