Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not resist her fascinatingly brown-bearded French and riding master. They were married at City Hall, Manhattan, though she had wept for a religious wedding. At No. 212 West Twelfth Street (the dingy brick building still stands) she bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...
...interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...
...quietest period in Japan's fiscal year is the winter months between the old and new silk cocoon crops.- Bearing well in mind fragile, brown, papery cocoons. Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye last week chose Jan. 11, 1930 as the date for putting Japan's currency {yen) back on a stabilized gold basis. The stabilization credits of $25,000,000 each in favor of the Imperial Government were opened at New York and London las! week by J. P. Morgan & Co. with U. S. and British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required...
...Morgan moved his head around, then swung it back into the identical position. But Photographer Steichen had got what he wanted?his subject had relaxed. It was the same pose, but more naturally and easily arrived at. Snap. Another picture. Exactly two minutes had elapsed...
...Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen...