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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Ill Winds | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

So fared the only Negroes ever admitted to Annapolis. At West Point, Negroes have fared better. Of twelve who were sent to West Point, three were graduated. The bones of one of them, Col. Charles Young, today rest in sacred Arlington as recognition of work well done in far-off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: 50 Years After | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

The First Law. In reality anything might happen if a bearded Bolshevik, a lovely Britisher and her fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Two diamond thieves, one of them a woman, and the kidnaped manager of the Crown Diamond mines, get thirsty in an oxcart. Suspense, provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

The Area. The eclipse of last week was something over three hours in actual duration. It covered some 110° of longitude, 45° of latitude, beginning in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa at dawn. Traveling in a northeasterly direction-into regions where the day was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectacle | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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