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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: America, judging by the consensus of public opinion is invested with a so-called "crime wave" just now and a great many people are beset with doubt as to the cause of it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. We have been enacting more rigorous laws giving longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

¶ To a White House breakfast last week went the Navy's general board to discuss tonnage reduction with the President. Grizzled old officers were assured that their opinions would not be ignored. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who had interrupted his summer yachting to be present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Thirty years ago Detroit was a far-seeing city. Horses still clop-clopped over its pavements but people were talking about steam and electric transportation. Those who were foolish enough to think of gasoline got what they deserved. They had faith in the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whence Detroit | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

There were many optimists, however, and not a few successes; Ransonx E. Olds, who alone has had two automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whence Detroit | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In the State of Denmark | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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