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...These people have millions to finance organizations which avowedly seek to destroy the Constitution and the Government and to subsidize newspapers that openly urge civil war, but where are their public kitchens, where are their Christmas gifts to the poor, where are their donations to scientific institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Covert Attack? | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cold Aids Cotton | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Drama | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

Believe Plan Will Destroy Alloofness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPOSING FACTIONS AIR VIEWS ON BOK PLAN; VOTING BRISK | 1/18/1924 | See Source »

...life with amused toler- ance, in which he is capable of interpreting life as a gay, mad, foolish show through which he has passed? Surely the wisest satire must be written by the old. The young can puncture bubbles; but only the man who has lived widely can destroy mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: W. S. Gilbert* | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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