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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Johann Julius Braun, German priest with parish near Fulda, arrived in Manhattan last week to patent an explosive and a parachute substitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inventive Priest | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Leeds | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...amity with Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, the President mentioned also that the relations with "Hispanic America" were in unfavorable contrast with those with the U. S. Said he: "I can say that relations with the United States, which are so fundamentally important in our national life for patent reasons of commercial intercourse and neighborliness, unfortunately assume a character of indecision, frequently resulting in disagreement." Making it clear that he was referring to foreign oil investments, Senor Calles remarked that some petroleum men had assumed a rebellious attitude to the Government that "no independent country could accept," adding that foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Mexican Politics | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Richard Barthelmess, cinemactor (Broken Blossoms, Way Down East and more recently The Patent Leather Kid), to Katherine Wilson, actress, recently seen in Manhattan in An American Tragedy. (She played the factory girl.) He, educated at Trinity College, a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, was this year divorced by Actress Mary Hay, whom he married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Patent Leather Kid (Richard Barthelmess). A tussle in the prize ring is one thing; a tussle in the trenches another. In the first, one can keep his hair slick between rounds and be reasonably sure that the fight will end as the managers agreed. But in the trenches, where a man's head may be blown off without contract, haircombs are counted superficial. Besides, there is no counter jab against a 16-inch shell. So the hero, once a cocky pugilist of the alleyways, turns yellow. But later he braces up, rushes a machine-gun nest, falls, comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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