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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For what does an adventurous artist reach when his sailing ship is dashed by storm against the knees of Greenland's icy mountains? Artist Rockwell Kent, thus shipwrecked last summer (TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kentlings | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

In Chicago Schuyler C. Schwartz's second wife objected to the same thing his first had disliked: he had an automobile for each of his 13 mistresses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

On the Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Do right and fear no man. Don't write and fear no Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

But last week's disclosures of Lakin lobbying won no praise from the Committee. Lobbyist Lakin had engaged as the lobby's attorney Edwin Paul Shattuck, a Manhattan lawyer who had served with Herbert Hoover in the Food Administration. To the committee this employment looked like an effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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