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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after Mr. Pinchot. He is variously known as the boss or leader of Philadelphia Republicanism. He announced himself as the "Wet Hope" of Pennsylvania. He will have the Republican machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement of this law has failed, and it has failed because, in my opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Millionaires | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...without stopping even to draw up the usual "Ministerial Declaration," although he stated that he would soon come back and present his new Ministry to the Chamber. Meanwhile it was, of course, obvious that the new Cabinet is the old one over again-except that its four new members swing it slightly to the Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Geneva Cabinet | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...explanation of the great vogue of these periodicals is simple enough. The relaxation and reaction from prurient Victorian prudery has extended to the masses. The post-war restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATIZING SEX | 3/11/1926 | See Source »

...Like every reaction which takes hold of vast numbers of individuals there was present the very real danger that the pendulum would swing too far, that in freeing itself from a too dictatorial predecessor, the post war generation of Germany would cast off all restraint, and, in seeking freedom, find license...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Bierwirth Thinks Well of New Youth Movement in Germany--Postwar Cult Has Tried to Tackle Sex Problems | 2/25/1926 | See Source »

Perhaps pragmatism is to be the essential philosophy of the western world. Surely materialism itself is not far removed from this science which must swing back to man, which cannot direct itself into the unknown for the pleasure and splendor of the voyage Most successful adventures have had the pawn shop behind them, but with the pawn shop forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GUILDERED GOWN | 2/20/1926 | See Source »

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