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Scene: The oldfashioned, high ceilinged sittingroom of a private suite in the musty and second class Princess Hotel. Through the casement windows one looks out on the Place de L'Etoile; and a portion of the Arc de Triomphe is visible. There is a notice asking guests to put out the light when leaving the room, and another stating that the laundress of the hotel is the only one admitted. The suite is that of John Pierpont Morgan. (A secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...post haste to Moscow (where he found thermometers at 22 degrees below zero) and announced himself ready to sign the Litvinov protocol. After a little diplomatic jockeying the delegates assembled at the Soviet Foreign Office, and sat down around a table draped in dark magenta-not red. Three movie arc-lights sputtered, seven cameras whirred. Then came a puzzling interlude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...have preserved the evidence, both written and printed, of the unbelievably nasty methods used to abuse and attack the Democratic nominee for president of the Anti-Smith forces and by those who were religiously intolerant. There arc those in the South who regard religious liberty as the peculiar privilege of their own kind. There are also women in Texas who offered prizes to those who would "scour" the country and secure the most votes for Hoover. (Was it the women who were to purify politics?). . . . Jo MILLER GRAVES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Bourbon. Certainly complete devotion' to Catholicism and to Rome, well illustrated by his dogged resistance to the Civil Constitution, contributed not a little toward Louis' condemnation. It can even be argued with assurance that religious motives contributed as largely toward his execution as toward the martyrdom of Joan of Arc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SAINTED VICTIM | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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