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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible spouse for: Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. King Zogu of Albania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

About beautiful, aristocratic Hungarian, women there often clings a subtle, exquisite perfume. Often as not that perfume is created by M. Francois Coty of Paris, artificer of olfactory pleasure. Last fortnight, it seemed as if many Hungarian, women would still be delightfully gowned, still be beautiful, but unfortunately would not still be perfumed by Coty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...under the ownership of one man or corporation. Des Moines, Iowa, has such a newspaper. It is owned by an aggressive young Harvard graduate, John Cowles, and his father. Its morning and evening editions have different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly breeds stagnation-not to mention other moral evils-but in Des Moines, the Cowles are spending more money in putting out an alert, progressive paper than, others do in fighting competitors. Old and famed as a morning-evening-Sunday newspaper is the Kansas City Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Urge to Merge | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Sculptor Lukeman's work was not cut out for him. For three years he has been cutting it. With scaffolds and staccato electric drills his pygmy assistants have swarmed over the face of Stone Mountain, moulding the gigantic nose, beard, shoulders of General Lee. Often on the plains below has walked Samuel H. Venable of Atlanta. He is the spokesman of the Venable heirs who donated the memorial site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vexed Venable | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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