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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls badly blistered. A piano and a handsomely mounted boar's head, which was subsequently thrown out the window, its mouth spitting flames, were other miscellaneous items that were destroyed. Damages were estimated variously, the amounts ranging around an approximate figure of $5,000. It was rumored late last night that the Club was uninsured against fire, so that the ultimate expense will fall upon the members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iroquois Fire Draws Gala Crowd in Early Morning Festivity; Conflagration Conceived in Sin or Sorrow is Current Tale | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...surrender the inclosed note from the late Briton Hadden in response to the notice printed in TIME but with an additional feeling of a great personal loss to that already experienced by readers of TIME everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...twelve richest men in Europe is Belgium's picturesque, choleric Emile Francqui. Like the late great Cecil Rhodes, he found his fortune and lost his temper beneath the blazing sun of Africa-Belgian Congo. Three years ago, as Finance Minister, he won world fame by ''saving'' (stabilizing) the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). For the past month he has represented Belgium on the Second Dawes Committee which is striving at Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Last week a news leak from the secret Committee sessions revealed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cash Talk | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Some of our present day colleges have become so specialized in late years that they are now nothing but highly differentiated intellectual department stores" said Edward Howard Griggs, noted public speaker in discussing the modern University with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRIGGS SEES CHANGES IN COLLEGE SPECIALIZATION | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says his prayers, it is going to be in the presence of the entire family, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATERIALISTS | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

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