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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston. Parrying the Hoover charge of '"Socialism!" (see p. 7) was the main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith Speeches | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Dishonest students came to the examination rooms with text books hidden in their voluminous sleeves and miscroscopic notes concealed in hats, shoes, even socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang said: "We have sent identic notes to all the powers concerned asking them to move to abolish extraterritoriality as soon as possible. I am unable to divulge the text of the note, but wish it made clear that China is urgently desirous of early assumption of her sovereign rights in all parts of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Monsieur Charles Koechlin of Paris, distinguished composer, author of several, text books, writer on musical subjects, and teacher, will lecture in the John Knowles Paine Hall Friday evening at 8.15 o'clock. M. Koechlin's subject will be "Contemporary Composers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Koechlin Lectures Friday | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard Club of Boston announces an entertainment for tomorrow night. Harry C. Ostrander is to give a lecture on "Mohammedan Lands of the Near East." This lecture is to be accompanied by motion pictures illustrating the text...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecturer at Harvard Club | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

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