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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you tell me if I am mistaken in saying that TIME made the largest increase last year of any U. S. publication? I've got $100 or theatre and dinner for six on this...
...newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, presently presented its 2,000,000 readers with My Own Story by "Captain Barker." Excerpts...
...clash expected between General Calles' 18,000 Federalistas and an estimated 10,000 Insurrectos under General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who captured and then lost, earlier in the week, the fourth largest city in Mexico, Monterrey, captured in 1846 by doughty U.S. General Zachary Taylor in a most decisive battle (ultimate result: Texas, New Mexico and California are now United States...
Matches. A shrewd bargainer is Swedish Match Co. To obtain exclusive match concessions, it has lent money, bought securities from many impoverished governments. But Swedish Match is interested in matches, not money. And Swedish Match has an active and able financing company in the form of Kreuger & Toll Co., largest stockholder in Swedish Match, headed by Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger (TIME, Oct. 1). Last week, therefore, through a syndicate headed by Lee, Higginson & Co., Kreuger & Toll offered $50,000,000 debentures to acquire securities now owned by potent Swedish Match...
...France did not stop with the post-impressionists, the present day tendencies are represented by the work of Matisse, Picasso, Gromaire, Villon, and Braque. The exhibition is the largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn...