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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I and others are advocating a national Indian holiday, to occur each year, preferably in the month of October at the time of the Harvest moon or during our glorious Indian summer. I notice whenever you mention the Indians that you are uniformly fair and impartial and I trust that your great newsmagazine will see fit to say a word in favor of this program. A people from whom we obtained a continent and who furnished 30,000 young men in the World War, it seems to me, are highly deserving of an annual holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Before he entered Walter Reed Hospital last month to die, Secretary of War James William Good had not quite finished his first, and last annual report for his department. To his bedside before lapsing into final unconsciousness, he summoned his wife, gave her detailed instructions to be carried to his secretary. Forward-looking, optimistic, the report outlined Army plans and policies which another will now execute. Some facts set forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Report | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Morrow for Edge | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

That J. E. Barrett '30 and B. H. Ticker captain and captain-elect of the Crimson football squad, would decline the invitation to play on the all eastern football in its Western conflict on the coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barrett and Ticknor Decline Invitations to Play on All Eastern Team--Crimson Players Named on "All" Teams | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...motion of the moon. For some years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month and day in the future will be forty seven of our days in length; at the time of the origin of the moon from the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEM OF ORIGIN OF SUN'S PLANETS STILL BAFFLES SCIENTISTS | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

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