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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of rubber planting within the area of the concessions granted has never been contemplated and certainly has never been discussed. . . . American financial interests have not only been associated with the Panama Corporation, but have had the fullest explanation given them of practically every step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fantastic Fears | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Psychological Tests. The assistance of modern psychology in selecting matriculants had been accepted more widely than ever, and Brown University had taken the next logical step in this direction, instituting psychological examinations supplementary to the physical examinations which every university is careful to give its members annually (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place of his own. It is said that he knew by a customer's bearing what he would like to eat?for a bright eye, crepes Suzette; for a laggard step, Vol au Vent de Volaille à la Reine. Bolshevism, prohibition, induced him to retire. "I will not submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...jingoistic faith in huge national armaments"; then you propose to abolish these evils by increasing the number who can drive the anachronistic chariot!. You admire the prospective course for the "idental discipline" it will afford, yet how long has the CRIMSON stood for discipline of the absolute, goose-step variety in any field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

...matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without allowing the army and navy completely to fall into that state so adequately described by a certain gentleman as "innocuous desuetude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVAL R. O. T. C. | 6/16/1926 | See Source »

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