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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶Mary Garden, Chicago's "Our Mary," got off a boat in Manhattan last week. She said: "I weigh 120 pounds when I'm before the public and when I'm not it's nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

In the Protestant Episcopal Church a dean is not a bishop's pawn, but deans and bishops go together. Where there is a bishop, there is a cathedral (in most cases); where a cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. John's Dean | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Dr. Gates last week gave his congregation jovial news. Said he: "Saints are everywhere. Everyone here is a saint. In visiting prisons I find saints. A saint is anybody in the world trying to do the best he can with the help of God."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. John's Dean | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Expert | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Hushed Accidents. The U. S. Senate last week ordered Secretary of Commerce Lament to make public the report of every air accident, something the Secretary had refused to do for fear of shaking public confidence in aviation, of marring the reputation of operating companies, of making his Department subject to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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