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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprung up in the person of Governor Pat Neff of Texas. The Democratic state organization intimated that the Texas delegates would be instructed for Neff. The Presidential idea is said to have entered Governor Neff's head some time ago when William J. Bryan paid him a visit. He is a vigorous Dry. Mr. Bryan has asserted that if sent to the Democratic Convention as delegate from Florida he will nominate a Dry, Progressive Democrat. "Whom ?" it has been asked in Texas, "whom does he mean but Neff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Field of Four | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...what men represent its views. I believe the election should be held in April. It is a mistake to hold an election in winter. Fourteen years ago I made this mistake, which cost many votes as owing to the weather, the people in the mountain districts were unable to visit the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Che Cosa Fa, Mussolini? | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...plot of the play is: "The beautiful young wife of an old, countrified Prince receives a copy of a rather gallant book of love with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Theatre: Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

Arriving last week in Manhattan was Luigi Pirandello, Italian author of the fantastic Six Characters in Search of an Author. Signer Pirandello is a professor of philosophy at the Normal College in Rome. His first visit to America will be devoted to lecturing and inspecting the Pirandello cycle of several plays which Brock Pemberton will present in the middle of January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Theater Notes, Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...main subject for general discussion will be "Faculty Control of Athletics." President J. R. Angell of Yale will make the principal speech on this topic. The advisability of sponsoring the visit to this country of a delegation of European college men will be considered. The object of the visit is to make a study of American college athletics. The case of the eligibility of C. W. Paddock, world's champion sprinter, will also be investigated. Paddock has been declared by the Amateur Athletic Association to be ineligible to represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS CONFERENCE TO MEET IN ATLANTA | 12/22/1923 | See Source »

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