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...rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan War," "Boy Worker Locked in Bank" (Eng.), "Priest's Auto in Accident" (Ire.), "Colonies Restless, Empire Shakes" (Eng.), "Ice Prevents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vox Vulgi | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...fact that they were so highly educated which destroyed those unpleasant young men in Chicago, but precisely the fact that theft colleges failed to educate them at all. They read the books, but they did not grasp the idea. A large majority of undergraduates also do not grasp the idea the difference is that they don't read the books. The results are far less dramatic, but they are, as the professor points out, even more serious because they are so much more widespread. New York Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...vacation in Boston. He heard theft the Boston Post was nearly bankrupt. It was a challenge. He stepped in and bought the paper. He then had: $100 cash, 3,000 subscribers, a debt of $150,000 and an average net loss of $2,500 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grozier | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Save America | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...Theft of the Gobelin tapestries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Nov. 12, 1923 | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

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