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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the foregoing it is apparent that no President can appoint Supreme Court Judges, not even the "dehumanized super-efficiency expert" Mr. Hoover, if by any mischance he should be elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...expert was needed to find out why the National Railways of Mexico have for so long been making so little money. Mexico might have sought her expert in the. U. S. (where most miles of railway are), or in Great Britain (where express trains make longest, fastest non-stop runs), or even in Scandinavia (for Swedes are great railway builders to the minor nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Canadian's Advice | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

This commonplace story of a girl who is lonely in the world and frightened by its machinery is related on the stage by means of episodic scenes. The girl is beautifully played by an actress new to the Manhattan stage, Zita Johann, whom the expert Arthur Hopkins has discovered among the ranks of road players and raised, as he raised Barbara Stanwyck and Pauline Lord, to stardom. George Stillwell plays the woman's husband with a touch of burlesque that throws the role out of drawing with the true characters opposed to it. The sets, designed by Robert Edmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...plot consists of Father Murray's struggle to keep Son Murray from "throwing" the championship for the sake of an expert brunette (Actress Suzanne Caubaye) who gets her orders from a masterminded nightclub gangster (Actor Robert Gleckler of Broadway fame). Father Murray has the assistance of an Honest Home Girl (Actress Harriet MacGibbon) and a High-Minded Sportswriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan? "I am not an expert on financial situations," he said. What did he think about the Franco-British naval treaty? "I am not the Foreign Minister," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Moose Member | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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