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The Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adjournment | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Of course Claude Hopkins, when he made his lucrative psychological discovery, had to "put it across" to manufacturers having things to advertise. That was where the head of the Lord & Thomas firm came in. Persuading manufacturers that of all advertising agencies Lord & Thomas was the only one for them was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

According to Mr. Streit, the candidates with whom he motored were stopped every few miles by gendarmes, who were "always armed with rifles and equipped like soldiers." The usual procedure during these halts was for the gendarmes to point their rifles at the driver-candidate while he slowly edged his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROUMANIA: Strong-Arm Election | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Strength in Numbers. Since the organized workers of Britain have never before attempted united coercion, it was not generally realized last week how numerous and well coordinated are their ranks. Nowhere else, except in Soviet Russia, is trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Midnight Crisis | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancing Master | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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