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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In a last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Morrows & Election | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

In Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Friday there were no quotations nor Saturday for the Exchange was closed. Clerks who had passed many a sleepless night, slept, then returned to clean up the greatest amount of work which brokerage houses have ever had in so short a time. In the hurly-burly many an error had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Nor was there anything intangible about the man who steered the ship of U. S. prosperity through the storm, who at length felt the helm respond. More than most men, Thomas William Lament can be touched, appraised. In obvious and literal ways, this right hand of John Pierpont Morgan is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

"The Ginger Cat" is an outstanding example of a certain type of mystery and melodrama writing that is very popular at the present time. It ignores one of the principles of good melodrama--that the reader's attention should never be distracted from the main story and the main characters...

Author: By G. P., | Title: THE GINGER CAT. BY Christopher Reeve. William Morrow & Co. New York, 1929, $2.00, | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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