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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated Lausanne Treaty with Turkey behind closed doors; arrived at neither conclusion nor vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Legislative Week: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, tireless Westernizer, scowled last week as he entered the new Hotel Erkraf at his grubby capital, Angora, and found the dance floor all but deserted, though the band was playing a fox trot according to his orders, and officers with their wives were numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Dance! | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...there is the Ibis bird and then there was a turkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guinea Hens Join Yard Cops, Cercle, and Tutors in Grays Basement--Lampoon Heads Silent on Rumored Banquet | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

...family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston to open their presents.* Before going to the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, the President read some papers and worked on his Trenton speech. In the evening, Attorney General & Mrs. Sargent and others arrived for dinner. A 30-pound turkey was carved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...Because I object to wasting money in feeding jackals and turkey buzzards of Prohibition, I refuse to indorse, agree with or vote for any appropriations designed to continue this futile farce of enforcing a non-enforceable law and taxing my fellow citizens to swell the volume of lawlessness, depravity, corruption and dishonesty now debauching the American Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Verbosity | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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