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...reflection upon any investigator who in good faith is seeking to expose crime or any other defection among public servants. The guilty individual, whether he be high or low, Democrat or Republican, must suffer the severest punishment. Upon this proposition the Republican Party stands firm as a rock. Yet let it be known that guilt knows no party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: At Cleveland | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

Ornately Carved In Solid Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER FINDS OLDEST OF BUDDHIST CHAPELS | 5/27/1924 | See Source »

...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER FINDS OLDEST OF BUDDHIST CHAPELS | 5/27/1924 | See Source »

...headmaster of a typical English parish school at South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident he never did a stroke of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Race | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...exports have not ceased. We rather find that the imports increased, during the first 17 months, 42 per cent and the exports 12 per cent. Furthermore, farmers are not suffering because of the protective tariff as was predicted. Compared with their condition in 1920 and 1921, when it his rock bottom under the old tariff their condition is excellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAISES RECORD OF HARDING, COOLIDGE | 4/30/1924 | See Source »

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