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Word: places (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first morning of Herbert Hoover's administration, the Republicans of the Senate caucused to choose a new floor leader in place of Vice President Curtis. It had all been threshed out beforehand and the election fell upon the senior Senator from Indiana, the Honorable James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leader Watson | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Lord Fauntleroy, and a wild west show-girl before she was 16. She made her reputation when she took Elsie Ferguson's place in Outcast. She has earned more than $2,000,000 by acting but has not got it now. Famed for her Temperament, her 30 pedigreed Schnauzer dogs, her dramatic manner in conversation, and the way her eyes change color, she said at the time of her divorce from Ted Coy, onetime Yale footballer: "My love affairs, my servants, and the food I eat are not public property." When the Actors' Equity Association accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...They accepted the resignation of onetime New York City Police Commissioner Col. Arthur Woods from the League's Anti-Opium Committee, and appointed in his place Chief of Police Jonkheer A. H. Sirks of Rotterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Billions in the Balance | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Buckingham Palace this Spring, will make their bows to Queen Mary alone, the Lord Chamberlain announced. There will be but one throne in the throne room at this year's formal courts. The Prince of Wales will lead his mother to the dais and then take his place in the family circle, below the dais and to one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association, taking place today, will close a long series of conferences on educational problems, which opened on March 8 and have been held during this last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

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