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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After ten years of beating, Congress last week transformed a monster sword into something faintly resembling a plowshare. It was the War Department's $160,000,000 project on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Ala., a power dam to generate electricity to fix atmospheric nitrogen to make nitrates to make explosives to blow up the Enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowshare | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Connoisseurs know that in the lacelike stonework of this Chapel and in its cunningly carved oak chair stalls the English Gothic Style attained its richest and most intricate perfection. The resplendent scene was one to quicken blase hearts, as each Knight mounted to his carved niche, grasped his sword by the blade, and extended its upraised hilt toward the High Altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Noble | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...saint and slayer, as professed parliamentarian and absolute ruler by power of the sword, Cromwell is convicted by the marshaling of the writer's facts. He is made to stand forth as a fanatic as convinced of divine inspiration and protection as any divine-right Stuart monarch ever could be. But the dominant impression gained of the man is one of militaristic might, of the martial power that was the weakness of the Protectorate, the most direct contributing cause of the Restoration...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Men and Women | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Regardless of this paper sword which swung above Bishop McConnell's liberal head, his associates elected him to head the court of seventeen ministers who would hear less frivolous charges brought against Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Commander Mabie cried: "Why parade the grandson of an arch traitor up the street dressed in the uniform of his grandfather with the insignia of the dishonored Confederate States on the sword and sash? . . . We try to forget the Civil War, but they still remember it in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lee Flayed | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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