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Economy (after flaying the Republicans for their failure to reorganize the Governmental machinery as in 1921 they promised): "The administration spokesman answers only: 'We have given an economical administration,' and that has been repeated so often that some people begin to believe it without the slightest proof. I assert that there is no proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upon the Steps . . . | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...therefore ask you, in a spirit of American fair play, to invite me to your church at any time that suits your convenience during the week inclusive of and beginning Sept. 2 and I ask you to make the same statement in my presence with such proof of its truth as you may be able to advance. I further ask that you permit me to make full reply. In order that you may not be embarrassed, I will permit you, if you choose, to conduct the meeting by question and answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Deadliest Foe | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Protestants might scoff, or heretics sneer. The slant eyelids of infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medal | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...surgeons took away in all 60 sq. in. of Norman Douglas' skull, preserved them at the Toronto General Hospital. They are proof for a professional paper that Dr. Gaby is writing. Never before, so far as the two surgeons can learn from the medical literature, has an adult lost so much skull and lived. Nor children. Sometimes a baby is born without a skull top, dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Skull-less Adult | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Died. Peter Rudak, 136, claimant (with documentary proof) of military service 120 years ago in the Russian Army fighting against Napoleon; in Pitchania, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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