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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many accept his invitations and are so graciously rewarded, that Salzburg, once the home of monks and archbishops, is now the capital of Drama, and Max Reinhardt, its first citizen, lives in Leopoldskrom, formerly the palace of the Princes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Reinhardt's Salzburg | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Ulysses S. Grant said: "I am not nor have I ever been a candidate for renomination. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty?circumstances not likely to arise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Theodore Roosevelt said: "The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...will succeed him ? Perhaps he himself, for some insisted last week that he might accept Republican nomination against his will. But barring him as a Republican possibility in 1928, most commentators were left to exclaim with U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson: "I am astounded. The Republican race will be a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes the society influenza and marries the woman, who certainly did right by him. Although film followers will recall that Blanche Sweet belongs to an early cinema epoch, she shows no signs of weakening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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