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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the 70 units competed, they met in Manhattan's Mecca Temple. There they spent the better part of a day determining that the Concordia Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the best Class A chorus of all. Liederkranz of Scranton, near neighbors to the Wilkes-Barrians, won second prize. Class B Winners were the B. & O. Glee Club of Baltimore and Ottawa Temple Choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Glee Men | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...bald doctrine would be a bitter pill in the throats of a typical film audience. So he tempts the crowd with a Graustarkian love affair: all about how Paul, though heir to the Claverian throne, began life as the son of a simple U. S. garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kings Like Wells | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Sued. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, husband of Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney; by a Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber; for breach of promise; for $500,000. Claimed Divorcee Fogarty: she met Tunney at Hot Springs, Ark., in October 1924; next year, and later still, he "promised to marry her." Claimed Fisticuffer Tunney (at Brioni, Italy): he only knew Mrs. Fogarty slightly; never intimately; never asked her to marry him. "It must be a joke," said he. Developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...week's developments: 1) Schulte and United Cigar stores offered 15? cigarets at two packs for a quarter-but no more coupons. Cartons of ten packages, $1.20. 2) The Atlantic & Pacific and the Liggett stores (whose longstanding price cutting on cigarets is chiefly responsible for the present troubles) met the United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would sell two 15? packages for 23?. Cartons of ten packages, $1.15. Last month President David A. Schulte of Schulte Retail Stores Corp., announced that he was going to do some price cutting that was price cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 2 for 23c | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

When Wheeling & Lake Erie stock holders met at Cleveland last week, the Taplins argued that the Van Sweringens should not be allowed to vote their Nickel Plate and Alleghany holdings, inasmuch as the Interstate Commerce Commission last month (TIME, April 29) ordered the Nickel Plate to "divest" itself of its Wheeling stock. Therefore, the Taplins argued, the Van Sweringens had no right to vote stock which they had acquired and were holding in defiance of the I. C. C. Compromising, the Van Sweringens voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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