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While U. S. businessmen talked at Paris of a "new epoch" (see p. 44) in Berlin best business minds bent over the farewell report of Seymour Parker Gilbert who recently ceased to be Agent General of Reparations when the duties of that office partly lapsed and were partly merged into the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, May 26). Mr. Gilbert courteously waited until $345,000,000 of Young Plan bonds secured by Germany's promise to pay were successfully floated. Then he released a 350-page report in which more than 100 pages are devoted to flaying the German...
...business have talked little of new eras, and the Silence of 1930 has come down on the Song of 1929. But in Paris last week Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, told the American Club of Paris not of a new era but of a new epoch. After admitting that business conditions throughout the world were not entirely satisfactory, that in some regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist and I am glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse...
...announcement that Beck Hall is to be sold at auction brings up a line of memories and traditions that are unmistakably associated with Harvard. It means that one of the most colorful buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental attitude that forgets all of the bad plumbing, and the creaking floors, there is a very palpable point which should not be overlooked. With this new sale about to be negotiated, the question is, what is the attitude of the University going...
...become one of the widely known playwrights in America, and is the author of over 20 plays pageants, and books on the theatre. His best known plays are "A Thousand Years Ago", "The Scarecrow", "Mater", "This Fine-pretty World", and "Kentucky Mountain Fantastics". Of his books on the theatre, "Epoch The Life of Steele MacKaye" is his outstanding product
...evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor, though it does furnish "setups" for guests who bring their...