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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones family has plenty to talk about: Father Jones is temporarily a jobhunter; Son Jones has a visiting boyfriend whose girlfriend has the telephone habit; there is no cereal for breakfast; plumbers are in the bathroom; a risque play has been raided downtown; Son Jones has sold the family car to pay poker debts and is traipsing around after an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sprats and the Coxswain | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Buick, high among U. S. autos in dollar volume production, has announced a new Buick-built six (as yet unnamed) noncompetitive with Buick and selling in a lower price field. Designed by Buick engineers, the new car will be built in the Buick plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amazing Autos | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, one O. J. Coats was arrested last week on the charge that he did steal a trolley car from a local yard, did go on a long Saturday-night joy ride to West View Park, clanging the gong merrily, all alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Last week came definite news of what Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti's first momentous step outside the Vatican would be. On June 24, feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, he will step into his new Fiat car and drive to the Church of St. John Lateran,* where he will celebrate a mass. The papal motor will contain a sort of back-seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FIRST STEP | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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