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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Passing of Warren | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Greatest Swordsman. Until he was past 60, Le Tigre challenged his enemies incessantly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique, essentially informal and Parisian, of M. Chevalier. Lubitsch too, who has in the past shown propensities for wit, seems at a disadvantage with his material. Best shot: how the Queen (Jeanette MacDonald) interprets a salute of 400 cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LES TROIS COUPS | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...students in the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning have been invited to see an exhibition of the film. "The Washington Plan--Our National Capital; Past, Present, and Future," exhibited at Huntington Hall on Monday, December 9, at 4.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Architects to See Film of National Capital | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

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