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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corners of his 49,900 English acres the Duke of Norfolk's men were coming, as they had come for 15 dukes before him. And with them came wives and children, for the coming-of-age festivities of England's Premier Duke & Earl were to last four days, were to be unparalleled in Arundel's history Dukes for of splendor Norfolk and date lavish their titles from hospitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Arundel | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old Issue | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trader Dean | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will compete with General Motors establishments at Warsaw, Stockholm and Alexandria, and even with General Motors of India in Bombay and General Motors of Japan in Osaka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford & Soviet | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Kolster Corp. maintained that four basic patents, including a fundamental tuning device by which several condensers are operated with a single control, have been violated. Vigorous prosecution may result in damage suits amounting to many millions, may throw the radio industry into prolonged patent litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Patent War | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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