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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preacher Militiaman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Were astir at 6 a.m. on the opening morning, as M. P.s got set to sprint and capture the seats they will hold throughout the session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Chiang has put off his going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Geographical Reasons | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Explained the Ford Motor Co.: "We are reducing prices now because we feel that such a step is the best contribution that can be made to assure a continuation of good business throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Week | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems to be pointing at inoffensive people and gratuitously calling them incestuous. There may be reason for dissecting a diseased corpse; there can be none for clubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An English Tragedy | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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