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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across the White House luncheon table Henry Ford discussed prohibition with President Hoover, then stepped in front of the White House to announce: "Prohibition is here to stay. Absolute enforcement must come. . . . Nobody wants to fly with a drunken aviator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Even granted that the allies of the last war retain their unanimity against their old opponent. Germany's rapid come-back will soon make her much less amenable to compulsion. At present in urgent need of foreign capital to finance her industry, Germany must tread carefully to avoid offending her possible sources of credit, especially the United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW START | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

Coach Mitchell will send Howard Whitmore '29, the dean of Harvard pitchers, to face the Crusader sluggers. Whitmore has never before pitched a Holy Cross game, but it seems probable that he will get the mound call again next Saturday, when the Crusaders come to Soldiers Field for the second and last clash of the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE ENTERS CRUSADER TILT AS UNDERDOG | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

...modernized the choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced the "general examinations" which are the hub on which Harvard now turns scholastically. The "reading period" at Harvard, an offshoot of the "general examinations" has now come to stay as a useful innovation: it apparently allows for just that leisure to turn around that the average student needs before he comes up for his periodic examinations, and it also changes the character of such examinations so that they become intellectual experiences instead of more tests of memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Felicitates | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

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