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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Liebermann told correspondents what he thinks of President von Hindenburg, whose portrait he recently painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Amiable Octogenarians | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...have before me the portraits of all the men who have been President of the United States. They number 29. I have counted them carefully. Yet on at least five occasions since election TIME has gravely and informatively told its readers that Herbert Hoover will be the 31st President. I add his portrait to the row-it only makes 30. Kindly explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Peru. An advance welcome has been sent to Guayaquil by airplane from President Agusto B. Leguia of Peru, the latter's picture and a portrait of James (Doctrine) Monroe were hung together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fifteenth Crossing | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Regally imperious must be the wife who would venture forth with the Cadillac-Fleetwood King Henry VIII, sumptuously decorated in wine, red and silver after the Holbein portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motor Masterpieces | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...wall in the offices of Blair & Co., bankers, at No. 24 Broad St., Manhattan, hangs a portrait of J. Insley Blair, founder. Revered is the memory of Mr. Blair, but stocks and bonds no longer interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blair-Rockefeller | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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