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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a bullet zinged back and forth last week across the Detroit River as the U. S. continued its warlike efforts to check the flow of liquor smuggled in from Canada. Many a bitter word crackled back and forth across the U. S. Senate where Wets and Drys alike flayed the indefiniteness of the Hoover Prohibition policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era of Humanity | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Restlessly Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores awaited at the President's Palace, Chapultepec, last week. Pope Pius XI's final word on the settlement of Mexico's three-year-old Church v. State feud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Masses | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...hills.' "I do not believe the Church now, or its representatives look upon its function as saving men from hell and getting them into heaven. The real values are human welfare and the method of getting it is by human goodwill-I will not say love for that word too has been greatly overworked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Channel, latest book of Ludwig Lewisohn, famed autobiographer, contains a bitter word-portrait of a woman. Mrs. Mary Arnold Lewisohn, the wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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