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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared to the blasts of the North Russian winter of 1918-19 when these U. S. soldiers died fighting the Red Army. After eleven years and by dint of diligent search by the Veterans of Foreign Wars their bodies had been exhumed from shallow graves in the frozen tundra, brought back for homeland burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

From present building plans it seems likely that the college will soon have enough rooming facilities for all of its students. It seems likely, moreover, that a certain amount of suasion, if not compulsion, will be brought to bear to have students reside in Houses and Dormitories exclusively. If this should be the case, what are the clubs going to do with their clubhouses, which represent an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably very few of these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alpha and Omega | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

During the four years of Coach Horween's regime; Harvard elevens have been definitely committed to offensive football. The new system got under way slowly and has had its ups and downs which have brought showers of criticism on Coach Horween. The season just ended however; seems to have shown pretty conclusively that the Crimson is on the right track and another fall with the same coach in charge should find a definitely established system travelling along at top speed. Without doubt Coach Horween's decision must have been influenced by the wealth of more than promising material which will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...News", an all-talking picture of newspaper life, starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard, and Sam Hardy, holds your interest to the end. The cynical, sarcastic atmosphere of the news room is there: the big scoop, the ceaseless waste of energy. Even a trite denouncements brought about through a dictaphone roll, does not blemish the effect of the whole...

Author: By A. B. M. h, | Title: GET FRONT ROW SEATS AT KEITH-ALBEE | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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