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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there is in, say, poetry. The organist may attract fewer ecstatic phrases of admiration from esthetic ladies, but he is usually a better musician than the poet is a poet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rochester | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...Communist organ Die Rote Fahn published an article prophesying a Nationalist coup, accompanied by terrorism hitherto unknown. The paper advocated killing every fifth Fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing a Putsch | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of Slapstick | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader of the Socialist party at Lodz. Here he founded the Kobotnik (Workman) - still the organ of the Socialist Party in Poland. After searching vainly for years, the Russian police discovered the headquarters of the paper. Pilsudski and his wife were implicated. He was arrested and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw, but feigned insanity so successfully that he was removed to an asylum, from whence he subsequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Wine and Blood | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...York Call (Labor), which is pink even to its book review section on Sundays, was cited by Industrial and Labor Information, published at Geneva, Switzerland, as an authority on labor matters in America. Industrial and Labor Information is the organ of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations. The Call stuck this feather in its phrygian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Praise for The Call | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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