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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another aspect of the grand manner as it is found in Secretary Mellon is his instinct for beautiful things. There is a richness about the sombre furniture and dark blue upholstery in his office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...dark unrest that lurks at the bottom of the coal industry, even at its best, broke out again last week in Mather, Pa. The Mather mine, owned and operated by Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are all the modern appliances for air, light, production, safety. Run on an open-shop basis, it employs some 750 men steadily, 300 days in the year. The town is clean. The Mather men are contented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: At Mather, Pa. | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

That the veins carry dark impure blood back to the heart from which it is sent to the lungs, purified, brightened by a fresh supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...brother of his own fiancee to be hanged for a murder of which the boy is innocent. Taking the only way out, Captain Ferreol says he did the murder. The judge does not believe him; and the past is about to be revealed when the real murderer (a dark, burly gamekeeper, played ably by Raoul Paoli) accidently confesses in a dramatic finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...button for mechanical medical service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed contact with fellow creatures, or from the unexpurgated air of the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Punch Another | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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