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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...
...Platt Amendment, as Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith did not know but promised to find out during the campaign (TIME, July 23, 1928), was a rider on the Army appropriation act of 1901. It defined the terms under which Cuba might have its liberty, subject to intervention by the U. S. if and when the terms were violated. It was the possibility of Platt Amendment intervention which last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation...
...Oglala' laid 56,000 mines during the World War," said Captain D. C. Bingham U. S. N., when visited Friday aboard his ship at the Navy Yard, Charlestown. "But you'd never know...
...Very few people know exactly what a mine looks like," the commander of the "Oglala" continued. He pointed to several which were left in the hold. They are large cylindrical shells of iron which are filled with T. N. T. when needed. To each mine is attached a large square weight which serves as an anchor...