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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigwig House. One Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman, owner of nationally famed racehorse Sir Galahad III which beat the internationally famed Epinard ("Spinach"), snapped up for ?75,000 ($364,950) last week the residence of the Dowager Baroness Michelham at 20 Arlington Street, an Augustan thoroughfare sacred until now to the mansions of peers (TIME, Nov. 22). Since the late Lord Michelham's art treasures (Gainsboroughs, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences) are likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...four Archdukes, Friedrich, Albrecht (his son), Josef and Franz (his son) will find themselves at its head in semi-royal state. The Archdukes, as the ranking peers of Hungary, will head a House composed of nobles; of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish prelates; of high dignitaries of state and rich bourgeoisie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Looming King | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...trust that at your earliest opportunity you will be good enough to publish this letter from a former editor of your paper and publish it without "certain elisions the sake of brevity." It I could have guessed that my ideas were to suffer a change into something so rich and strange. I should never have written for Liberty at all. Believe me very sorry for a misunderstanding which I was totally incapable of preventing. FREDERICK DEWOLFE PENGREE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

Last week it was presented by the American Grand Opera Company of Portland, Ore. Indian melodies, descriptive of Indian daily life and ceremonies, had been woven subtly into a rich orchestral background, made into a graceful romantic design simple as the story itself. Although it had no special thematic development, critics acknowledged, praised Composer Bimboni for his able conducting, for his score singularly free from monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Winona | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRY FOR PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IS RAISED BY SCHEMING POLITICIANS, DEMONSTRATES ROOSEVELT | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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