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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Frank C. Emerson, Wyoming: "The open primary is breaking down the system of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gentlemen All | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...price-fixing on his products and he courts the minimum of state control of his affairs. (Government control of crop surplus and government price-fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: McKelvie v. Lowden | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure [to prevent floods] is a national humiliation." Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways) Mr. Thompson said that Mr. Hoover was merely repeating previous flood-control methods on a somewhat larger scale and added that the natural desire to arrive as soon as possible at some plan of flood prevention was likely to result in the adoption of "half baked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Aftermath | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Other causes brought forth were: migration of church members (Congregationalists have a "follow up" system to keep account of itinerant members); the War, "with its profound political, social and industrial disturbances"; materialism, "which has brought indifference, neglect and disregard of religious obligation to the very altars of the church"; organization assessments, which induce individual congregations to prune the "inactive" membership rolls (they are taxed according to the size of their rosters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Membership Losses | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Osteopath Francis A. Cave, an honorary vice-president of the Medical Liberty League, also devoted himself to electronic practice; William Howard Hay, chairman of the section on advanced medicine, had a diabetic cure and one for hay-fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter of the 'tricho system'; George E. Harter is the founder and director of the Defensive Diet League; E. M. Perdue has a cancer cure. And then there is Koch-William F. Koch, M.D., Detroit, Mich.- inventor of the Koch synthetic antitoxin for the cure of cancer. According to his bulletin, some 300 physicians will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Borderline Medicine | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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