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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night clubs" and the presidential campaign. Can it be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Film. In Manhattan, Hooverizers viewed a first showing of The Master of Emergencies, pieced together by the Nominee's friend, Author Will Irwin, from some ten miles of miscellaneous cinema films showing Hoover activities since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Into Action | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Longest Sisters | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...correspond with men and women between the ages of 25 and 32." Fat Nellie Wallace wrote that in Tchula, Miss.; lonely Joe Sleet read it in El Paso, in the advertising columns of a magazine. He wrote to Nellie Wallace and sent her a lock of hair. That was ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy understanding of the complicated sex impulse, vowed he would save other youth from similar distress, and devoted his life to elucidation. With this end always in mind, his studies ranged from ten years' medical practice to wide reading of philosophy, history, and fiction, recorded in his six volumes of annotated quotations-Taine, Swinburne, Flaubert, Strauss, Voltaire, Boccaccio, Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Aesthete | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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