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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was a warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet and Wetter | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ring Around Nobile | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

His Majesty's Prime Minister in Australia is brisk, kinetic, remorselessly logical Stanley Melbourne Bruce-a statesman as different as possible from His Majesty's Prime Minister in Great Britain, kindly, honest, incurably emotional Stanley Baldwin. The hobby of beloved Prime Minister Baldwin is keeping pigs, prime pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Pigfancier v. Planejancier | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Political forces emanating from the U. S. and Japan were exerted at cross purposes, in China last week, not against each other but none the less in conflict. Both military intimidation and diplomatic pressure were employed by the Imperial Japanese Government against the new Chinese Nationalist State. The reason was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sam, We Are Here! | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Said Sir Hugh Percy Allen, Director of the Royal College of Music: "At every turn, wherever we go, music is made a stop-gap to fill the silences which today humans cannot face. People are terrified of silences, so they have music and I consider it a great insult to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Knight Bleated Down | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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