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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands of smart, irrepressible Argentines appeared on the streets, in subways, cafes and at bull fights, wearing pajama pants with coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prudes v. Pajamas | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Eagerly awaited was the result of Tuesday's smaller meeting of Steel's potent directors. By night every U. S. broker, most Steel stockholders, knew they could buy, at $140, one new share for every seven shares held. With Steel closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furnaces & Gold | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...general, would have given effective substance to the ghost war, "... a war in areas so vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays and massacres, as the result of which countries as large as England or France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...result of trials held last night in Sever 36, six men were chosen for the finals of the annual declamation in French, known as the "Concours Oratoire pour la Medaille France-Amerique". Those selected were A. F. Archer '30. Joseph Barber '32, W. D. Carter '31. P. G. Livermore '32, M. P. Shaw '31, and F. M. Watkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX CANDIDATES CHOSEN FOR FINALS OF FRENCH SPEAKING | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...result of the whole affair seemed to be just a lot more whacking good publicity for The Cradle of the Deep and for Simon & Schuster as whopper-publishers, to whom any budding whopperist would do well to take his (her) manuscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CRADLE ROCKED | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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