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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they think the stock of their companies is selling too high, conscientious tycoons will often sound a warning. But mum is the traditional word when they deem it is going too cheap. Last week this convention of high finance was crisply broken by potent, unconventional Viscount Rothermere, dynamic chairman of the largest chain of British newspapers and allied interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Badly Run Down | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nerve Specialist | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...intercollegiate athletic field as a factor in social understanding that it is not to be wondered if a justly tired public long ago became dubious and raised its hand in protest. Considerable exaggeration undoubtedly in many instances gives rise to a far too optimistic view towards meetings which are often more objective spectacles breeding little mutual understanding. In an atmosphere tuned up to the scale of fifty thousand spectators it becomes increasingly more convincing for the sceptic to smile away the mention of a genuine relationship between the two participating student bodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERNING THE DAY | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...argument often advanced in favor of drinking, that there should be no harm in drinking, and that there is great pleasure therefrom can easily be answered. Professor Fisher's statement as to the drugging effect of liquors is in itself a valid refutation of the facts of the point; and furthermore, the argument is on the face of it a fanatical one. Drinking as a personal pleasure should never be used as an argument in advocating the use of liquors when there are so many dangers involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI - PROHIBITIONISTS HURL DEFI AT HOOVER | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...trouble originates from those who would like to seem to be what they are not. Carelessness in registration accounts for a considerable number of errors in the University records. Plain mistakes in spelling are often found in these records. Failure to put the last name first in registration is the cause of much confusion, making it quite possible for a man to be registered under two different names in various offices of the college. This season's record for mistakes is now held by one man who has achieved the doubtful triumph of being registered under three names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aspiring Harvard Students Change Names in Attempt to Scale Ladder of Social Success--Others Fail in Spelling | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

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