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Last week Perfecto E. Laguio, M. A., Yale 1926, saw in the picture evidence of subtle propaganda designed to defeat the move for Philippine independence. Said he, at Manila: "It is a fake which was exposed 14 years ago. How it has been resurrected I do not know, nor do I know whether the little paper was aware that it was a fake. Somebody who hates the Philippine Islands has produced it in order to persuade Americans that Philippines are incapable of governing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Welcome^ Mr. Thompson | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...years ago in Omaha, Neb., one Tony Veneziano clutched his throat and toppled into the gutter, never to move again. One Paul Blackwood, accused of his murder, pleaded self-defense, was set free. Last week some gentlemen behind a fence shot and killed Blackwood and his wife as they walked home from the theatre. A detective questioned Mrs. Veneziano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tony | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...share on common ($2.93 in 1925), that orders on hand June 30 were $50,010,117 ($59,390,376 Mar. 31; $50,342,813 June 30, 1925), that production was at 72% of capacity (56% last July). Directors made no move to resume Bethlehem common dividends payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel Notes | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...modestly relates "How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90" after the approved manner of the American Magazine. Ladies' culture and gents' luncheon clubs, of which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which may or may not move them to agree with the blurb. But if no one agrees, the author need not repine. He is most amusing most of the time and if one cannot be another Mark Twain it is something, after all, to be a Stephen Leacock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Laughing Leacock | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

That cycle began in 1905 when a female child was born to Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wills in Centreville, Alameda County, Calif. Sleep- simple food-outdoor exercise-her father had used the phrases before. He used them on his patients, and pretty soon he was able to move to Berkeley and send Helen east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Intrepid Ingenue | 7/26/1926 | See Source »