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...next paragraph sprang the Times' joke: "President Coolidge today asked Congress for authority to invite . . . the International Congress of Entomologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broun Back | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...next paragraph sprang the Times' joke: "President Coolidge today asked Congress for authority to invite . . . the International Congress of Entomologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pert Headlines | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Joke." Stocky, ruddy James V. McClintic, Oklahoma Democrat, arose vexatiously soon after the reading-of-the-journal one day. "Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House," said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Joke in Life: Drawing (by famed John Held Jr.) of rooms in a house. In the center hangs the mistletoe. Around the edges, on stairs, behind curtains, on sofas, ten couples, "necking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Joke in Judge. Drawing of rooms in a house. A girl stands alone under the mistletoe. Around the edges, behind plants, on sofas, ten couples, "necking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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