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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Heflin "makes" almost every issue of your magazine, and in every issue his name is invariably written with the phrase ". . . who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope." Sometimes you do it twice or thrice in a single issue. If I see it again, I'll scream. No one hates the Roman Pope more than I do, but this constant repetition is getting nerve-wrecking. If you must explain this not wholly unique hobby of Senator Heflin's, whenever you write his name, for God's sake sit down and compose fifty or more variations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Senator Coleman Blease of South Carolina, who "loves all the citizens of America," made a speech quoting an anonymous woman in the Census Bureau as having written: "We call these colored Census Bureau employes 'Hoover Chocolates' and all wish we could make him eat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Southern Senators | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...following article was written for the Crimson by Professor Emeritus Kuno Francke Litt. D. '12, honorary curator of the Germanic Museum. Professor Francke is well known in this country and abroad as an authority on German literature, and fine arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMANIC MUSEUM TO RECEIVE PORPHYRY SEPULCHRAL FIGURE BY MASTER NICOLAUS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

Since the Student Advisory Committee was reorganized two years ago personal visits have been made to every Freshman soon after the beginning of the college year by Junior and Sophomore advisors. These visits with the subsequent reports written by the advisers on the men they have seen constituted the most important part of the advisory work. According to T. H. Eliot '28, chairman of this year's Committee, these visits have not proved entirely satisfactory and it is probable that they will be abandoned next year. In their place the work of the advisers in holding office hours during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEEZY IS MADE CHAIRMAN OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

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