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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Plan for Chicago | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Soon smart Washington will miss the deceptively nervous gentleman who wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Diplomatic Shuffle | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

William Francis Hare, Viscount Ennismore, son and heir of the fourth Earl of Listowel has often puzzled his friends. Recently he surprised most, shocked many, when he gave an exhibition in London of his own neat and delicately stitched embroideries. Last week he founded Neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Neighbors Ltd. | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...that information may be mishandled in the presentation, and the conviction that the surest preventative is to withold information. There may also exist the belief that official disbursement of publicity material will be interpreted as the activity of a university anxious to find itself on the front pages as often as possible. But it is definite lack of appreciation of the meaning and value of properly controlled publicity that is assuredly present in circles of Harvard authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN PRINT | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...knew that she would often meet him, no one knew their secret trysting place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mail Order Songs | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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