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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Brown University one evening last week, in oldtime Sayles Memorial Hall where chapel is held, some 1,000 graduates gathered to sit on couches and chairs brought in to make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In his main address Orator MacDonald touched on a novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No War: No Blockade | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honest Butcher | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Emma Otero, 19-year-old Cuban, educated at Cuban government expense, was honored by a flag-draped hall and a telegraphed introduction from Cuban President Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Emmas | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

For Traveling. E. Hamilton Lee, Boeing air mail pilot, last week logged his 1,250,000th flying mile. He is the first flyer to travel so far. Last week he was 37½ years old. If he had walked four miles every hour since he was two and able to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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