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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovery of America must always rank among the foremost accomplishments of a single man's genius and purpose against discouragement, ridicule and ignorance. . . . Columbus holds place as one of the few greatest among men. ... It was fitting that a son of Italy& should have been marked by destiny. . . . It is the fortune of our country to have attracted thither an impressive number of the sons and daughters of this land where leadership and lofty talent have so long found noble fruition. . . ."-Calvin Coolidge, by letter, to the Italian Benevolent Society, among whose honorary presidents are Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...second baseman came from Buffalo to play with the Washington American League Club. In 1924, he managed the team which that year won the pennant and the World Series. Bucky Harris, the manager, became the greatest man in Washington. Coolidge was proud to shake his hand and Congressmen were lucky to get a look...
...swirls of scientific research, industrial promotion, amusement purveying and financial synthesis, the greatest U. S. amusement enterprise became imminent last week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone...
...present revival of perhaps the greatest as well as the last of the comedies of the Restoration period. "The Beaux' Stratagem" by the Jewett players at the Repertory, shows in colorful style the author's laughing mastery over action, for eminence in which George Farquhar's name has slipped through generations of drama lovers...
...loadings numbered 1,138,312 the week of Sept. 15, the greatest number so far this year. Grain, livestock, coal, merchandise are moving in great quantities...