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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilmington, Mass., one Joseph Wharton, 79, paused to pick up a nickel dropped by a stranger in a bank, had his life savings ($950) whisked from his hip pocket while he bent over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...year he kept Bulgaria neatly juxtaposed between alliance with the Central Powers and the Allies. In 1915 when his country declared war on Serbia, he was elated that "Bulgaria was coming in on the winning side." For his part in involving Bulgaria in the War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court at Sofia. He escaped to Germany and last July, never having returned to serve the sentence, was granted amnesty (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Each week Liberty magazine publishes a series of drawings entitled "News of the World" by Caricaturist Ralph Barton who also illustrates his own drama criticism for Life. Among Caricaturist Barton's offerings last week was (see cut) a "NEW ANIMAL for the great new merger combining the five great American circuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Senator-at-large. "A man who receives 15 million votes but not enough to be elected automatically retires to private life and leaves the 15 million unrepresented except in so far as their senators and their congressmen are concerned. As a remedy, I suggest that we can amend our constitution to provide that the candidate for the presidency who receives the second highest number of votes should be entitled to a seat in the United States Senate as a senator-at-large during the term of his successful opponent. ... He would naturally become the leader of the minority party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...LIFE OF MAGIC-Howard Thurston -Dorrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illusionist | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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