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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover ordered government departments to resume all halted public works under their jurisdiction, hopeful that states, municipalities, railroads and industries would follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action Counts | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roosevelt on Wilhelm | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks could hardly follow the procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...plot of "After Dark" is scarcely worth mentioning as much. It is the traditional story of the hero who gets into bad company at once, and the intricate complications which follow are all in the best melodramatic style, and lend themselves perfectly to phrases like "Unhand me villain" and the like, all of which are greeted with uproarious cheers from the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...those who played occasionally. Touch football is the closest team rival. The men who played in the organized Business School, Inter-Fraternity, Inter-Dormitory and Independent touch football leagues number 201. Intramural football is third with 173 of which 98 played class and 75 Freshman inter-dormitory football. Then follow track with 76, Freshman inter-dormitory crew with 72 and cross country with 45. Though it has been impossible to complete the statistics at this time, the number of students participating in organized intramural activities only is very nearly 850--an increase of about 50 over last fall...

Author: By A. W. Samborski, | Title: Very Successful Fall Intramural Season Draws to a Conclusion | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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