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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were hot Slavic words in the Skupshtina, Jugoslavia's Parliament in Belgrade. Again, after three years of debate, the Treaty of Nettuno which would permit "peaceful penetration" into Dalmatia by Italian colonists was being fiercely attacked by Stefan Raditch, Croatian leader of the Opposition. Leader Raditch, a gypsy, a lover of freedom, saw in the impending "penetration" the dangerous colonizing hand of Benito Mussolini, whose land is just across the Adriatic from Dalmatia and neighboring Croatia. Croat Raditch shouted in furious, wild speech. Supporting him were the Dalmatian and Croatian deputies. Against him were lined the Serbs and Slovenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Swine Judged | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...many a lover of word-fights may have forgotten, Col. Mitchell has clamored for almost a decade for a Department of Aeronautics separate from the War and Navy Departments. His experiences during the War and immediately after persuaded him of the need. He was the first U. S. officer to fly over the German lines, was chief of the U. S. air service for the group of armies in the Argonne offensive, and shared in practically all the major A. E. F. operations. He was in more engagements than any other U. S. officer. For War and prior Army service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Again, Mitchell | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...York!," tells of an exotic beauty who starts out on a de luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Morand | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Lilli Lehmann started her career as a coloratura soprana. Bellini and Donizetti were her gods. Then she met a little man with burning eyes. He was her mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lehmann Dead | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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