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...Indian name: Kotaw Kaluntuchy. She claimed direct descent from Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian Chief credited with invention of the Cherokee alphabet. In 1914 she, 23, married Croker, 73. They lived in Iceland. She said to reporters: "It is the dearest ambition of every Indian girl to win a chief . . . I have won the chief of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Detroit's Hotel Statler last week sat several hundred delegates to the 32nd annual conference of the Zionist Organization of America. But chilling was the picture they beheld with their minds' eye. They saw steely, Atheist Russia, land of Communism, attacking and destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Russia Flayed | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?at Christmastime in 1934. Thereafter, they guessed, they would have "the largest magazine circulation in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...solitary heart went out most unreservedly and with the most pathetic devotion toward fragile chickens; and out of these uninteresting little birds he elicited a degree of responsive intelligence which was starting to see. One of his dearest friends, coming home from a journey, brought him a couple of bantam eggs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

Then Merry del Val withdrew into the relative obscurity to which he has clung ever since. One dearest labor of these last years has been in the hope of achieving the canonization of simple, faithful, saintly Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Merry del Val Jubilee | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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