Articles from Time Magazine
The gross quota allowance of immigration for the new year is the same as for the last, 357,803, of which 20% or 71,000 is the maximum which may arrive in any single month… Germany has sent only 43,000 immigrants, although her quota was 67,000.
Quotas in 1923 Immigration (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
In order to gain a secure footing on the issue of Prohibition law enforcement, a Federal law was passed seeing to it that no foreign ships within the three mile limit of the United States could ever keep alcohol or wine in their ship stores.
Foreign Shipping (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
When the architects of Prohibition were planning their dry fairyland they always knew that the weak spot in their scheme was going to be the vast borderlands that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico.
The attached article from 1923 outlines the concerns President Coolidge’s administration had regarding Prohibition law enforcement along the Canadian frontier.
Prohibition And Our Northern Neighbor (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
The census-takers of 1920 to the people of America:
Can you read and write?
Five million men and women of America responded:
We cannot!
American Illiteracy in 1920 (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
A dictatorship can last forever, if properly managed. It is my task to provide a mechanism that will endure and to have the various parts of this mechanism running without friction; then after I am gone it will be able to run itself. A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced. Certainly the Fascist regime will last a very long time… Socialism works on the principle that all are equal, but Fascism knows we are far from equal. Take the great masses of human beings. They like rule by the few.
Fascism At It’s Peak (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
The Time Magazine review of Charlie Chaplin’s film, A Woman of Paris, fell in line with many other reviews of the work: they all believed that Chaplin, as director, had moved the ball forward insofar as the development of film – and Time hoped that they had seen the end of Chaplin the clown. However, the 82 minute film was a commercial flop, primarily because he wasn’t in it (they chose not to publicize that he played an extra’s roll for one quick scene).
The first film Chaplin had directed was The Kid (1922) – and you can read about that here…
A Woman of Paris (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
Here is a column that appeared in the October 15, 1923 issue of Time that reported on the amount of devastation that was inflicted upon the German-occupied areas of Northern France between 1914 through 1918.
More on this topic can be read here
The Damage to The Occupied Areas of France, (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
The opposite number of the Anti-Saloon League (established 1893) was The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (1918 – 1933). As the name implied, it was organized for the purpose of repealing Prohibition in the United States and sought to achieve this end by printing pamphlets and articles and engaging lecturers. This short notice announced that the Association was setting up the Face the Facts conference in the Nation’s Capital – to be convened immediately after the League had closed their own conference. Many elected officials would be in attendance.
– from Amazon:
The Anti-prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing With Prohibition
The Resistance (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
During the summer of 1923, 40 state superintendents of the Anti-Saloon League convened in Westerville, Ohio in order that they might assess the changes wrought by Prohibition and draw-up plans for the coming year.
On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry…
The Anti-Saloon League Convenes (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
