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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, came a reminder of the fact that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Five years ago when the British Labor Party was younger, louder and relatively impotent, Britain's Trades Union Congress met in annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Firebrand Quenched | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doeg-Lott | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...course the Old Lady's purse was not plump one morning and lean the next. Such epochal movements of gold bullion are necessarily slow. All summer airplanes have been hopping off gold-laden from England. Many winged to Germany, attracted by legitimate opportunities for high return offered in the Reich, where the discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at 7½%, a potent magnet. But even more gold planes sped to France, and that was passing strange. With the Bank of France's rate at 3½%, the zeal of that institution to acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palladin of Gold | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...vast difference lies between those people who work in Manhattan theatres in July and those who work in August. July is the lean theatrical month. Then it is that lowly, hopeful playwrights take advantage of the heat, the consequent emptiness and availability of theatres. They present their dubious plays with groups of actors who cannot afford to be particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: August Forecast | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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