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Word: r (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...be?whose ivory satin princess wedding gown by Patou, cap of duchesse lace and bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley were already matters of record. Together they visited New Haven, where John is a clerk in the offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., and inspected the four-room $78-per-month apartment which Florence and John have rented there. Said Mother-in-Law Coolidge: "I am pleased with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mother-in-Law Approves | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Leningrad, U. S. S. R., nine directors and engineers of the Soviet shipbuilding trust were arrested last week, charged with treason in trying to obstruct the government's shipbuilding program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

First of the shipbuilders summoned was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. No "tramps in purple and fine linen" are these, no "millionaires in rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Maine Votes | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement rest with the several Dominion states or with the central Dominion authority? Back in the early '903 the Australian states set up thei'r enforcement machinery. It functioned unhindered until the Dominion Arbitration Court Act was passed in 19154. Ever since there have been incessant conflicts. It is notorious that the powers of the Dominion Court under the Australian Constitution are not sufficiently broad to allow it to function efficiently. On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce Defeated | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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