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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly the two U. S. citizens who last week accepted invitations to sit on the bank charter committee pack their own potency. They must have plenty. They are Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Charter Men | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hair fern used by florists in arranging and pack inn bouquets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Fly Loan | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Long lines of omnibuses with the flags of 71 nations bristling in the wind, moved slowly through Birkenhead, England, passed through streets packed with hand-waving townsfolk to Arrowe Park, where there were broad green fields, freshly-cleaned parade grounds, stately trees. There the great flag-decked omnibuses deposited boys in khaki-colored uniforms, each with bundles, and a pack upon his back. Soon tents, 40 acres of them, had sprung up in neat, army-like rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Millionaires | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Girls | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...apparatus for the Hooker Impossibilities tricks consists of a small metal and glass frame, snugly holding a pack of cards, standing on a tabaret. Any card named by any member of the audience rose from the pack. A glass globe was put over the frame, a deck of cards was provided by a member of the audience, the frame was raised above the tabaret on a book supported by small glass pedestals, the frame was set swinging through the air suspended by two cards-none of these successive changes interfered; the named cards continued to rise. The up-and-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Merlins | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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