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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite overwhelmed by the surrounding magnificence. Therefore he compliments the men responsible for the structure on the restraint and foresight they have exercised. The student of the University may well join with him, in the eulogies he bestows. Assimilation of a large number of pictures is a laborious task. It is ameliorated, however, by the presence of the best possible facilities for viewing those pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW FOGG MUSEUM | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

Motor Workers. As decided last year in Detroit, the A. F. of L.'s next big task is to unionize the automobile industry. This work is well afoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Los Angeles | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...perturbed over insurgency in Wisconsin; that Mr. Butler was about to put Republican pre-convention doings on an official party basis. No one suggested that Mr. Butler was going to resign, but the New York Times called him "our most perplexed statesman" and others sketched the enormity of the task with which he, or his successor, was faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. Parley | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...days before publicity because a business and before notoriety became as interesting as fame, popular imagination was fired by ballads or sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at length, the real digest of the news is broadcast in single words and short phrases. Thus Col. Lindbergh's exploit of last spring has become included in all its glory in the monosyllable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN MYTHS | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

Bishop Slattery then set forth that the only possible hope of bettering the world lies in individual effort. He advised that each man, one at a time, make himself over and devote his entire energy to that task. Admitting the slowness of this method, the Bishop nevertheless asserted that it is the only sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "UNITED WORLD ADVANCE IMPOSSIBLE"--SLATTERY | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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