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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These young men have been accustomed to consider themselves superior to their female counterparts. But Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe has now sternly ruled that each gigolo must obtain a license and carry an identity card exactly similar to those issued to common prostitutes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gigolos Licensed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

4) "I state definitely that the Democratic party if intrusted with power will be opposed to any general tariff bill. . . . I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own merits by an impartial commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Border | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

"Italian journalism is free because it serves only the cause and the regime. . . . Elsewhere the press is at the orders of plutocratic groups and vested interests, such as public utilities and the steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Press On! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Actuaries consider 65 the beginning of chronological old age. The U. S. has about 5,500,000 people above 65. Some 1,680,000 are at least 75; 240,000 at least 85; 60,000 at least 90. In 1,920 the U. S. had 4,267 centenarians.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sale of the B. R. & P. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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