Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward private homes; apartments ("flats") are "a drug on the ma-ket." In Paris, Athens, Belgrade, Milan and many another continental city, the opposite is true. The co-operative apartment idea has "taken" in Paris...
...very respectable European chauffeur and a lady lion tamer have for some years shared a home in Tangier. Their life has been one of mutual affection, its surface being ruffled only now and again by the petty incidents inherent to such a protracted and intimate companionship...
...music is by Fausto Piñedo, a Yucatecan who has adapted European methods of writing to the methods of Mexico's popular troubadour ballads. Under the Minister of Public Education's auspices, Payambé will soon be presented in Mexico City, probably at the Arbeu Theatre, for the great National Theatre, designed for the presentation of opera and drama, though conceived many years ago, is still incomplete...
Author Brod, responsible for a good chronicle of European Jews entitled Reubeni, is extremely doleful in this, his latest novel...