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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dance Committee, headed by A. R. Sweezy '29, announced last night the complete list of ushers for the annual dance to be held in Memorial Hall on the evening of March 2. It was also announced that the final day for sending subscriptions and applications for boxes to James De Normandie '29, 43 Randolph, had been advanced from today, until Monday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR DANCE USHERS SELECTED BY COMMITTEE | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

...Pasteur Medal was first given in 1898, by Baron Pierre de Coubertui, to be awarded annually thereafter to the successful candidate in a debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics, the trials to be conducted in English. The administration for awarding the prize is in the hands of the French Department of the University, which under the terms of the competition is at liberty to call in the aid of other instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX OF 13 SPEAKERS ARE KEPT IN PASTEUR TRIALS | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

...made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 70% Strike | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...country's tobacco tax bill for 1927, as reported by the Government, was $387,427,881, of which $291,620,773 came from the little pale blue portraits of De Witt Clinton on the internal revenue stamps of cigaret packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billions in Smoke | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Buck Privates. Lya de Putti, who, with Emil Jannings, was seen in Variety, whirling in dizzy arcs on the trapezes of love and sorrow, now plays a faintly comic role in a rather foolish U. S. soldier-boy cinema. A demure, unprepossessing pacifist, wearing a huge head of false hair, she falls in love with a boisterous buck private named John Smith. Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque. At the last, everybody begins to run around, faster and faster, taking spills and turning somersaults. Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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