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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting that began between Jews and Arabs at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) spread last week throughout Palestine, then inflamed fierce tribesmen of the Moslem countries which face the Holy Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islam v. Israel | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...known families," shouted for the "full dinner pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Henry Justin Smith, 54, spouts quips from a dry, poker face. He is 1) author of this book's Introduction and Part II, 2) Poet Carl Sandburg's proud "boss," managing editor of the Chicago Daily News. That Mr. Smith makes no attempt to glorify his city is a sign of the regeneration of U. S. editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Ithaca, N. Y., 253 men and 350 women scanned twelve photographs given them by Dr. Richard S. Uhrbrock, assistant professor of Rural Education, lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Chéri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Paris Reads | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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