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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania's Bishop Thomas James Garland, his clergymen and his laymen have long been trying to get a bishop coadjutor. Five men they asked and were five times refused.* Last week they found a man who would accept. Unlike the previous five selected he was right there in Pennsylvania. He was Dr. Francis M. Taitt, rector of St. Paul's Church, Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sixth Choice | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...spread the bills on the kitchen table to gloat over them. Then he went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Money Devil | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

After a while, observing that the couple charm each other, Husband Carter plans to go west, get a divorce, thus allow Mrs. Carter to marry the engaging Bradford. But when he divulges this plan, Manager Bradford coolly declares that he is an itinerant fellow, not given to matrimony. Husband Carter's rage is quelled by his wife, who afterwards tells him that she has never been able to accept Bradford completely. Inspired by this new light on faithful, patient wifehood, Husband Carter decides to stay with Mrs. Carter and consult a new doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...purpose of the Guggenheim Fund contest is to get a plane not merely safe in skilled hands, but foolproof under all kinds of conditions. Such a plane must be able to land slowly, take off quickly, climb steeply, glide either at flat or steep angles and remain under control at all speeds and altitudes, even though weather conditions prevent the pilot keeping on even keel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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