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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navesink Lights, by Adelaide Morris, is a shiny landscape, containing a bathing pavilion, bridge, hill, road, river, castle, and autocar, cleverly executed in the suave and polished "naïve" manner, now vastly popular in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independence Days | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Wagner's Life," Professor Hill, Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...this man it was said by a shrewd observer--Franklin K. Lane nearly fifteen years ago: "Here is a man for us to get next to. He is a Harriman, a Morgan, a Huntington, a Hill, a Bismarck, a Kuhn Loeb, and a damned Yankee all rolled into one! Can you beat...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...Hill, the last negative speaker, showed the harshness of southern states toward the negro. In Alabama the penalty for "intermarriage or intermixture" is imprisonment for from two to seven years. "And the affirmative maintains that intermixing is desirable, when a lynching awaits such a marriage!" he said. "According to the constitutions of five southern states, a man with one-eighth negro blood is a negro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACE INTERMIXTURE IS DISCUSSED WITHOUT VOTE | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

Mike Meehan, once engaged in selling tickets at a New York theater agency, entered the lists this week in the field where Morgan, Hill, and Harriman have fought their battles; Michael J. Meehan, financial genius, emerged, a trifle dishevelled, but richer by several millions. All this is very pleasant and bewildering for him, but there is a little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MISSING INK | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

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