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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quietest period in Japan's fiscal year is the winter months between the old and new silk cocoon crops.- Bearing well in mind fragile, brown, papery cocoons. Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye last week chose Jan. 11, 1930 as the date for putting Japan's currency {yen) back on a stabilized gold basis. The stabilization credits of $25,000,000 each in favor of the Imperial Government were opened at New York and London las! week by J. P. Morgan & Co. with U. S. and British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gold between Cocoons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where Dr. Boas was medical director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Inconstant Heart | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...winter season, may be found a keen-eyed little man in a baggy grey suit. He peers inquisitively through silver spectacles, his grey mustache and hair are scraggly, uncombed. His name is Alfred Stieglitz. He is a lover and maker of photographs.* And he is one of the quietest and most admired characters in the art world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steiglitz into Metropolitan | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Real name, MacMullen. Born 37 years ago in Ulster, he attended Cambridge University, and now serves the British Crown in the Ministry of Labor. One of the quietest Irishmen alive, he is known to few people. Acquaintances have marked him as interesting, keen, observant. Mrs. Mac-Mullen is better known as Actress Mary Sumner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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