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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tex., judges (TIME, June 24). Hard-boiled correspondents had to grope for adjectives to describe her famed "air of ethereal purity."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

"Softest Job." When a congressman from Iowa, Mr. Good frequently heard people describe the position of Secretary of War as "the softest job in the Cabinet." After six months' service, he wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 3 Man | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Character in a novel begins with the physical. Author Chapman has few physical descriptions, thus she has a hard job delineating character. Almost wholly she lets her people talk and describe themselves thereby; that far, at least, she succeeds with character. Indeed, her plots being fragile and her style under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

In the American League the batting leadership has varied between young Jimmy Foxx (see below) and Heine Manush of St. Louis. Player Robert ("Fat") Fothergill of Detroit has a higher average than either, but has not played in all his team's games as he really is too fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball, Midseason | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Many a Manhattanite last week began to think that putting savings in a sock was perhaps not such a foolish idea. Just as state officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clarke Crash | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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