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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...errors. I. You will find that the father of her children was not Charles Wardell if you care to enquire. II. She did not '"detest" American audiences but adored them and they her. Henry Irving was more appreciated here even than in England therefore there is no base for such an assertion. Both Miss Terry and Irving deplored the fact that England did not appreciate Booth and when he failed there most pathetically, Irving made Booth act in his theatre and share his honors as the great artist and gentleman he was. This as a beau jeste to Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always has, and always will, control the sea, and would have no difficulty in maintaining a Monroe Doctrine for Egypt. On both sides Egypt is flanked by a limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Letting of contracts for the proposed $50,000,000 naval docks at Singapore, famed British Naval Base, was postponed, last week, by His Majesty's Government, without explanation. Cynics denounced the postponement as a hypocritical gesture designed to distract attention from Britain's extreme "preparedness," at a time when the Empire is about to sign the U.S. Treaty renouncing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...spine of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, and it may be that the Piarros burial tradition is a vestige from an Oriental migration. To check for the Museum of the American Indian, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey and his wife are now on their way to Trinidad, base for a 1,000 mile voyage by launch and canoe up the Orinoco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...rival the lemon in making citric acid. Italy's high export tax on citrate products prompted the chemist to set the mold to work. Moving In. Industrialization of farm waste would mean a reshuffling of factory sites, said the scientists. The source of supply would be the base, plants using waste products would be constructed in rural districts with the additional advantage of cheaper, more

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farmers' Friends | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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