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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago in Ulster, he attended Cambridge University, and now serves the British Crown in the Ministry of Labor. One of the quietest Irishmen alive, he is known to few people. Acquaintances have marked him as interesting, keen, observant. Mrs. Mac-Mullen is better known as Actress Mary Sumner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from his dilemma; and his convictions will attest that native ability is foreign as an aid in meeting the requirements of the "Generals". Sumner Moskovitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disagresement | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...little knowledge has often been considered dangerous--but as yet the "little" has been qualified by censors and critics to mean the anti-Puritanic. Now it appears that Mr. Sumner and his friends must include the treatises of pessimistic philosophy in the category of the proscribed. For there is danger in even a momentary glance at their gloomy thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PESSIMISM--PRACTICED | 1/23/1926 | See Source »

...discovers a new source of names is a genius. He appeared a few weeks ago?Editor W. B. Miller of the Sumner (Ill.) Press. He put a little ad in his paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Genius | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

After that, could any family fail to read the Sumner Press? Could any advertiser doubt that it would be read by the people of Sumner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Genius | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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