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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed man."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Foujita's Return | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

George Washington was warrior, statesman, sportsman, gentleman. Yet few pictures or statues of him suggest more than one side of his nature. In Artist Gilbert Stuart's famed portrait he is a gracious, handsome worthy. Other paintings depict him as a conventional, bewigged military man; a somewhat pompous dignitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Houdon's Washington | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

The winds of liberalism in the Presbyterian Church last week met gusty resistance. When the Presbyterian General Assembly recently vested control of Princeton Theological Seminary in a single body (instead of dual control by trustees and directors) it virtually assured the ascendance of Modernism in the oldest, richest Presbyterian seminary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Princeton Secession | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

There are only two medical schools for the 10,000,000 Negroes in the U. S.: Howard University Medical School at Washington, and Meharry Medical College at Nashville. Each has about 250 students enrolled, each graduates about 50 yearly. A few good students who can find no room, at Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

This idea published, Aeronautics waited for public comment. Last week it announced honestly: "So far nothing has materialized except a notable expression of sympathy from a large share of the daily press, and a few of the usual large gestures from those who profess to believe that the present hodgepodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: National Air Academy | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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