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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary last week to use unminced language on one important problem. It had been reported that 22 of the "career" diplomats whom President Coolidge raised to the rank of Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that the next President is privileged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units and members (Some 3,500,000 German-Americans). Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President-Emeritus of Yale University, wrote a testimonial: ". . . The object of the 18th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Items | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...state definitely that the Democratic party if intrusted with power will be opposed to any general tariff bill. . . . I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own merits by an impartial commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Border | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Inasmuch as wood alcohol is not a beverage, but a recognized poison (analogous to prussic acid or iodine) and its use and sale are not regulated by any of the Federal laws, we respectfully report that in those particular instances the subject matter is for the consideration of the State authorities rather than the Federal authorities. The State laws regulate the sale of poisons and provide for punishment for their improper use and sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Beverage | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING WILLOW | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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