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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three hours the Louisiana House of Representatives pushed and yelled. One member fainted during his impassioned speech about the Crucifixion. Another member charged at his opponent with clenched fists. Upon adjournment it was found that the House, by a vote of 58 to 40, had impeached Governor Huey P. Long on one charge, with more to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Louisiana's Long | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...after a course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was second woman in a Scrap of Paper, The Famous Mrs. Fair, Alias Jimmy Valentine. She jumped into headlines with Richard Bennett in He Who Gets Slapped. In the last two years she has been a member of the Main Acting Company of the Theatre Guild. Unmarried, she has an apartment of her own and likes contract bridge, cats (three at present), golf, swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

While freight cars of Mexican corpses lay in the heat and dust of La Reforma, the name of the stalwart Negro buck private John Finezee appeared on the front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bloodiest Hour | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...participation in the rail cartel would be chiefly the official recognition of a working agreement which has for some time existed between U. S. railmakers and cartel members. U. S. industry on the whole has been somewhat wary about joining cartels, fearing prosecution under anti-trust laws. But the government is much more broad-minded concerning what U. S. industry may do abroad than concerning what it may do at home and one obvious method of meeting cartel competition is to become a cartel member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Erma, Irma | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...erroneously stated (TIME, March 18), art editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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