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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Assembly is at present Spain's nearest approach to a Legislature; actually it is a consultative body, appointed by Dictator Primo de Rivera and working in committees for the most part. It is designed to aid the Dictator in framing: the laws of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Assembly Opened | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Picture a gorge some 3000 feet deep with a trail blown out of its perpendicular cliffs and right through 25 spurs which were too difficult to circumvent, where a single miss-step means death. That is the sort of approach to the silver mine which I visited during the past summer," said Professor D. H. McLaughlin in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McLAUGHLIN DESCRIBES SUMMER TRIP TO MEXICO | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...Brattle Street but usually it is in less interesting and more turgid forms than distinctive movies. The program of films scheduled for the coming months at the local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT NIGHT | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron the eve of Yom Kippur, and, pious, would not approach his place of livelihood on the holy Day of Atonement when Jews may do no labor. ¶ In Brooklyn, also, Yom Kippur Eye, 14 scoundrels, instead of attending synagog services, diced for money. Indignant neighbors informed police, who arrested the dicers. In court Yom Kippur, the judge sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yom Kippur Doings | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

November 2--"The Approach to Italian Sculpture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTON LECTURER ANNOUNCES DATES OF POETRY TALKS | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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