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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton, Professor Kemmerer gave out a long statement in which he described the Polish Government as "taking hold with a firm hand," and the Poles as "grimly determined to pull through" the present period of financial depression. He added that the Polish Government has cut its budget 25% for the coming year and instituted other drastic economies, and he believes they will make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Kemmerer's Report | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...They were pious men; they had been to church that morning. Deep on their fronts engraven sat public care; in their eyes flickered determination. When all had reached their places, one arose and, assisted by a large chorus, caused the proscenium to reverberate with the swelling notes of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Sa-aints of the Lo-ord", with "Ro-ock of A-ages" and old-time hymns. The odor of sanctity had settled strongly upon that lay temple by the time Atlanta's legal luminary, Lawyer Thomas E. Scott, cleared his throat and solemnly introduced the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Atlanta | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...motor world today. In 1925, the Fisher Body Corporation built more than half the automobile bodies for cars having a base price in excess of $500. (Seventeen years ago this firm was housed in one small building.) President William A. Fisher: "Our tremendous business has resulted in achievements it would otherwise have been impossible to attain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finale | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Married. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, famed conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, to Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of one of the founders of the famed medicinal chemical firm of Johnson & Johnson; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...firm still exports a small quantity of medicinal champagne to the U. S.; and we are obliged to meet the competition of spurious liquids which never were champagne at any stage of their dilution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vintners Roused | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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