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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a horrible example out of one lobby and one lobbyist, the Senate investigating committee kept James A. Arnold on the witness stand for five days last week while its members probed and pricked every nook and corner of his legislative career. Middleaged, heavy-jowled, canny. Lobbyist Arnold is manager of the Southern Tariff Association (organized to develop protective sentiment in the South) and of the American Taxpayers League (pledged to repeal the federal inheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sucker List | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been kept secret, as is usual. If there were anyone in England with a grudge against the King, now was his chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...House of Ricordi, Italian music publishers, has always zealously guarded the operas entrusted to it by the late Composer Giacomo Puccini. Feeling that radio was unqualified to do them artistic justice, the Ricordis have kept the Puccini operas off the air. Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln's 41 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...team was the same as that which faced the Wolverines and the chances are that it will stay that way for the last two games. Mays and White are working out daily with the first team and although neither will be in the starting eleven, both will be kept on the side-lines as a constant threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONGEST TEAM WILL FACE PURPLE | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

Captain H.K. Wells '33, Freshman fullback who was expected to start in the Dartmouth game, was prevented from playing by the injury which has kept him inactive for three weeks. Coach French stated yesterday, however, that it was hoped he would be ready for action when the 1933 eleven meets the Yale Bullpups on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEKEND IN MINOR SPORTS | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

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