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...conquest of all China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...they lived long enough Edgar Saltus could have typed Imperial Purple on a purple machine and Nathaniel Hawthorne could have related the woes of Hester Prynne with a scarlet fountain pen. To pens, typewriters and kitchen sinks as well as to roadsters, vanity boxes and magazine covers, has come Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brighter Bibles | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

What great man was born on February 22? Why, Robert Lampoon, of course. Or so Bob told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The maitre d'hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dismal Depression Develops Dazzling Desires in Lampy's Major Domo--Bob Reveals Secrets of Life on Anniversary | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

...secret" of the conference which can now be told. One of the two Chinese delegates, Dr. Wellington Koo and Dr. Alfred Sze, appeared with a superbly ornate fountain pen which disappeared soon after he loaned it to the other. Correspondents think they know what happened to the pen. Think they noticed that the two statesmen were temporarily estranged, stranger than fiction though the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Diplomatic Shuffle | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Died. Frank Henry Teagle, 49, soda fountain manufacturer, brother of President Walter Clark Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; of heart disease; at his home in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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