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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened with his big guns and then hand-shook everybody. Jim said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that he never had any use for the Klan and that the only issue is Jim Ferguson's dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Texas | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...practicable at the present time to limit the ultimate war strength of a country. On the other hand it affirms that it is possible to limit the land, sea and air forces which are permanently maintained in peacetime by various countries or which are capable of immediate use without preliminary mobilization measures. This principle is enunciated without prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Advancing Preparations | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Meanwhile the latter will use all their persuasiveness and all their religious politics to bring the individual Baptist congregations throughout the country to their own way of thinking. The polity of the Baptist denomination is not definite. In fact a Baptist church has never been defined. Each congregation, provided it carries the aspects of Baptistry, goes its own individual way. Their sectional organizations are only to further what common ends they can agree upon. This status of individuality the modernists would leave. The fundamentalists really are tending towards a condition in which the sectional organization will dominate the constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baptists | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...Navy Department and the Bureau of Mines last week announced successful experiments anent a new use for helium. Faced with severe diffculties in diving operations to raise the sunken submarine S-51 from 128 feet of water off Block Island (TIME, Oct. 5, 12), experts designed a compression chamber wherein animals were supplied with various mixtures of oxygen to find a combination that did not give them "caisson disease" or "the bends," as divers call the dangerous condition produced when they are brought too swiftly out of high-pressure depths. The basis of this dangerous condition is the formation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Helium | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...What new use for helium was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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