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Pierre Etchebaster, kinetic Basque, world's champion court tennis racqueteer, arrived in Manhattan from France to be an instructor at the Racquet and Tennis Club, to play exhibition matches, defend his title if an adequate opponent be found.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Concluded Privy Seal Jim: "I have found no magic remedy for unemployment"-and it was all too evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Squabbles | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Small of stature but agile and smart is William M. ("Billy") Hughes, kinetic oldster, Wartime Prime Minister of Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Quickness Counts! | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Laborite Laissez Faire. Efforts to end the strike were not strenuously made, last week, by Britain's new Labor Government. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald seemed to think he needed a few days vacation, took it at his rustic Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cotton Crisis | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Lately, brusque, kinetic Mustafha Kemal, President of the Republic of Turkey, glanced, too, at the tablets. Elsewhere in Turkey, by Presidential decree (TIME, Sept. 17), the Arabic script had been supplanted suddenly by the Latin alphabet, and President Kemal ordered that the Holy Inscriptions, like any others, must be spelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kemals Koran | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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