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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It is Spanish-so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune the first day (in New Orleans); heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crime in Purchase? | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

The decency debate was precipitated by Senator Bronson Cutting, Harvard-educated New Mexico Republican. He maintained that Customs officials are not qualified to pass upon literary imports. A recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Obscenity Bypath | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Enough of what cadets did in the past. There are a few stunts which are pulled year after year. Every year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEST POINT LIFE HAS ITS QUOTA OF UNIQUE CUSTOMS | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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