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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remarks by Mr. Spender: ¶"Americans are the most talked about and the most criticized people in the world." ¶"Undoubtedly true that the press quarrels which raged in Europe before the War contributed heavily to the fear, suspicion and embitterment which finally brought about the great disaster."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Said Spender | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Mr. Watson has been with the Hearst publications for 28 years. Famed in reportorial annals was his interview with the train engineer 23 years ago after the disaster in the old train tunnels under Park Avenue, Manhattan. Out of his interview grew the movement that eventually rebuilt that haughty thoroughfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Payne's Successor | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

The Royal Dutch head, predicting, early disaster, then wanted to know which nation or financial body was going to be "stung" by giving the last credit to the Soviets. ". . . To think that after considering the above anybody would be foolish enough to undertake the working of these fields under temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Doomed? | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Next day Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Doomed? | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

The Book, like most modern biography, wears the gallant armour of fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John Jones | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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