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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the executive offices, from the Kingdom of Ethiopia, marched Dr. C. Martin, legal adviser to Prince Regent Ras Taffari of Ethiopia, bearing a handsome shield in a brilliant red case. The President, prohibited by law from accepting gifts from foreign countries, permitted the shield to repose on his desk until its proper disposi- tion should be advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...American Legion visitors, The Barber of Seville was given with U. S. artists in all the principal roles. Those who pleased most were Madame Luella Melius, coloratura soprano, and Theodore Karle, tenor. Applaud- ing in the audience sat: Frieda Hempel, Ganna Walska, Madeleine Keltic, M. Fitzhugh, Charles Hackett, William Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Music | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Hound and Horn" is edited two members of the class of 1930 and the advisory board of the publication includes Conrad Aiken '11: Martin Mower '01: Professor K. B. Murdock '16, President W. A. Neilson of Smith College, and G. P. Winship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Hound and Horn, A Harvard Miscellany," New Publication Appears on University's Literary Horizon--To be a Quarterly | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

...James D. Dole, "pineapple king," ended at Wheeler Field, Honolulu. Arthur C. Goebel stepped out of his plane, the Woolaroc, and waved to 30,003 assembled under the clear blue Hawaiian sky. The small figure of a woman raced up to him, exclaiming: "God bless you, where is Martin?" She was Mrs. Martin Jensen, wife of a pilot in the flight. Two hours later Martin Jensen swung his Aloha down from Hawaiian sky, jumped out, into the arms of Mrs. Martin. He had won the second prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dole Race | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...DRUMS OP PANIC-Martin Feinstein-Macy-Masius ($2). The aim of this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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