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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple manner in which Mr. Ford disposed of the great question, Who should be our next President? was typified in one paragraph: "I believe it is the wise and natural thing for the people to agree on the nomination and election of Mr. Coolidge. I am satisfied that 90% of the people feel perfectly safe with Coolidge and I feel, too, that the country is perfectly safe with him. And if this is the feeling of the country, why change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Biggest News | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

Senator Lodge: "I think that might be a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rough on Russians | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

...thing these passionate pictures do accomplish: they confirm a long-standing conviction that Omar will never do for prohibition propaganda nor for an anchorite's amulet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Omar's Garden | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

Here are the four great creed-bearing* denominations of Protestantism in the U. S. Today they have one thing in common: a dispute. It is a dispute between old-timers and new-timers. The old-timers call themselves Fundamentalists. The new-timers don't call themselves anything, but they are called Modernists. This fact is of elementary importance. It reveals that the old-timers are organized, that the new-timers are not. The old-timers are forcing the new-timers to organize. Last week, as never before, clergymen throughout the country began to "take sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...takes Mother Nature some millions of years, by a combination of extreme heat and pressure to produce rocks, minerals and other hard things. Science is doing the same thing now in a few hours. Granite and jade have been made synthetically in a single working day at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. The substances known to be contained in the mineral desired are poured into a small platinum tube sealed with solid gold, which is placed in a "bomb" of the finest steel, along with a small electric furnace made of rubies. Heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Stones | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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