Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular reader of your excellent magazine, I regard TIME most highly, and therefore I take exception to your article under the heading "People" concerning Mrs. Cora Bennett in your July 16 issue. The business of life insurance, today, needs no defender and the person who sells this service, whether it be man, woman or widow belongs in a higher classification than a peddler. . . . Mrs. Bennett is not the first widow who has been forced to sell the very commodity for lack of which her erstwhile husband makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when...
...Senate. I was selected by Mr. Hoover's friends to preside over the National Convention that nominated him. I shall go to Palo Alto to deliver the speech of notification. I see that it is useless to remain in the campaign after that. So I guess I will take the first steamer to Europe and rest!" But the campaigners dined late that night at the Harvard Club and in the course of the evening Senator Moses was persuaded to accept a new title-Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Dr. Work remained chairman of this body, ex-officio. Senator...
...North Carolina, i; Ohio, 2; Texas, i; Washington, i. The adjustment will involve enlarging the unit of representation rather than swelling the ranks of the already cumbersome House. Instead of one Representative to every 211,877 of population, the latter figure will be considerably increased. This, of course, will take seats away from several States, as follows: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana...
...preponderantly and increasingly Socialist and Pacifist are the Germans of today that, last week, Socialist Prime Minister Herman Müller announced, for the first time, suspension of the annual army maneuvers scheduled to take place next fall. Simultaneously a letter sped from Wilhelm II to the Kaiser Wilhelm Association at Berlin, stating that the onetime All Highest War Lord still envisions "a day when the problem may arise of liberating the German Fatherland by reestablishing it under its Kaiser and hereditary Prince...
...accept whatever fees were offered." The 119 judges, touched by this appeal, suspended Registrar Chipot for two months only, then adjusted his suspension to fall exactly within the two months annual vacation of the Court, at which time the Registrar has no duties and no opportunity to earn fees, take bribes...