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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the heading of "Gifts" [May 7], you make the statement that "Reformed Jewry holds its services in the U. S. in English, on Sunday instead of Saturday." . While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Please allow me to correct an untrue statement in the April 30 issue of TIME which read, "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings." This you quoted as having been said by James Joseph Tunney; he did utter a similar statement while lecturing at Yale, but it happened to have been Jack Sharkey, not Dempsey, that Tunney said was given to extended mouthings and similar to Ajax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Fraternity-pinned chests subsided, however, when Editor Cleveland was carried by his exultation to make the following statement: "There is not much doubt about it. The next President of the United States, if a Republican, will be a fraternity man unless Herbert Hoover is elected." To this prophecy, lame enough in its omission of the two leading candidates for the Presidency (Democrat Smith and Republican Hoover), Editor Cleveland added the following: "Herbert Hoover is non-fraternity and anti-fraternity. Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frat Men | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

After the ousting, Mr. Broun issued a statement concluding: " 'Disloyalty,' unexplained, might mean to the reader anything from robbing the till to sitting on Ralph Pulitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Disloyalty | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

First team won practice game 22 to 0. Tough Customer Stevens would make no statement but said he was satisfied and no more practices will be held. Emphasis placed on batting type of ball expected from Jones-Bartlett combination. University Field, seating ten thousand, hired for Saturday's encounter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Holds First Workout for Saturday's Tilt With Crimson--Optimism Reigns High Among Tiger Stars | 5/9/1928 | See Source »

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