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...Budapest, Hungarian capital, the Supreme Court began to hear the suit over Count Karolyi's property, confiscated by order of two lower courts on the grounds of high treason and lese-majest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Karolyi's Law Suit | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...more recently, in the Ruhr. Learning that a member of this unpopular race was to appear publicly in their midst, Berliners were indignant. Protests were made to the American Ambassador against the "impertinence" of permitting a Negro to be heard on the concert stage, against the lèst majesté of offering musically scrupulous Berlin the tunes of the Georgia cotton-pickers. Hayes appeared. He sang his first number over the boos of several thousand public-spirited citizens who had come to witness his downfall. The house grew quiet. He sang a group of spirituals, then some songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hayes in Berlin | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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