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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Budgetmen | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band of military adventurers (TIME, March 4), and his capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Bars Hoisted | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Ralph T. Walker of Manhattan has designed a brown, congenial, masculine study for a country house. Two octagonal electric lanterns are hung by rods which pass through slots in the ceiling. They may be raised for general illumination, lowered for reading, moved laterally to any desired position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indoor Architecture | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

FURTHER POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON ?Withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia; edited by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson?Little Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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