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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed for details, Senator Smoot promised to give them out in a week. Crossly he added: "Then the papers can print as many lies about them as they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Gestures | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...want to make men's clothes less ugly, less unhealthy, and less cumbersome. The less clothing we wear, the better it is for us. Men wear far too much clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Moton. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute for Negroes, made a speech about race relations. His points: Negroes are not inferior to whites, but more backward. They want civic equality, not intermarriage. "The Negro and the white can live together side by side in amity, if both are educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Atlanta (cont.) | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Teena, however, offers no congratulations. "Get Louie back," she mutters to Jencic. "Ask me anything you want to and I'll give it to ye, but you got to promise to get him and see that he comes here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...highly paid solicitors and premiums, Publisher Taylor discovered, bring circulation only-not "reader acceptance." And reader acceptance is what money-spending advertisers want. So Farm Life's advertising did not keep pace with its circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: One-Magazine Town | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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