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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Authorities who have been most courteous and considerate. Moreover I have many loyal friends in the United States and I should not want them to be under any misapprehension." Possibly as M. de Polignac walked into his cabin, No. 203, he glanced at the card on the door of cabin 205. There, written in a steward's slanting scrawl, was the name: M. Clarence Darrow. Count de Polignac generally speaks English with only a trace of a French accent. Nevertheless the Graphic reported his final gangplank words as: "Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Polignac With Pistol | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...shop, no office door was opened one morning last week in Gastonia, N. C. Grim-faced, sullen men lounged about silent streets. They were waiting for the funeral of Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt, murdered in a gun fight with textile strikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Gastonia | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...doctrine is followed out think of what the country will become. No one will know whether his next door neighbor is what he is thought to be or not. No one will speak to anyone else, unless a proper introduction is made, and unless both parties are on the same social plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...President, the House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2667 ... in which the concurrence of the Senate is requested." Thereupon Clerk Chaffee passed his document over to the Senate attendant, bowed again from the waist, smiled, backed out of the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: To the Senate | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...door creaked open and there was the friendly face of Dame Nellie Melba. Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan. Above all, don't expect applause for your great aria, 'Casta Diva.' A London audience wouldn't clap the Angel Gabriel himself until the curtain was down and the proper time for applause had arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ponselle in London | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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