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Dates: during 1920-1929
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U. S. churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Blacks for Bethel | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

If all the human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Engraving | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Last fortnight the Great Man of Argentina, fiery Dictator-President Hipolito Irigoyen, who is almost fanatically secretive about matters of state, frankly admitted that he has it too. He called in surgeons who decided to operate at once.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

In Buenos Aires, Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

†The world has about 170 billions worth of life insurance in force.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for Research | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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