Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greatest Love of All. The talking cinemas do not work very well just yet. George Beban had an idea that he could create a substitute. He collected the cast for this play and interwove scenes with the actual players on the stage and the scenes from the studio on the film. Though the experiment is obviously too cumbersome to attain a widespread representation, it makes a magnetic novelty for picture stages and screens in the cities. It is understood that Mr. Beban has already tried it outside of Manhattan and will take his reels and his troupe on tour...
...School and Teacher Day?"The Guiding Influence of Future America." Points: "The necessity of schools," "The teacher as a nation builder," "School needs in the community." Slogans: "Better trained and better paid teachers," "Schools are the Nation's greatest asset," "Visit the schools today...
...Illiteracy Day?"Informed Intelligence is the Foundation of Represen- tative Government." Points: "Illiteracy is a menace to our Nation," "Illiteracy creates misunderstanding." Slogans: "No illiteracy by 1930," "Education is a godly nation's greatest need," "The dictionary is the beacon light to under- standing," "Visit the schools today...
...compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes...
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-louder and louder rumbled the big bass drum of Prosperity where they were beating it (TIME, Nov. 17) in Wall Street. The great bull days became a great bull week, the greatest in 20 years. In ten post-election days, 18,717,732 listed stock shares changed hands in the Big Bull Ring. Of these millions, over eleven and a half went in the week of Nov. 10, more than ever before save in the panicky May weeks of 1901. A total of 689 issues were dealt in-a new high for all time. Wall Street...