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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Lack of Ambient | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...less valid. The American student is constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...most part the discourses were similar. The Freshmen, slightly ill at ease, or somnolent, were urged to achieve "divine curiosity" (Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler), to create an intellectual atmosphere (Dr. John Grier Hibben). In general, they were implored not to behave like Freshmen, but like bright, contented students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sleep, Freshman, Sleep | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Panorama says, in its masthead, that it is "founded on a belief in the United States of America, its flag and its institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panorama | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...members of the Federal Radio Commission last week listened to these demands. They listened also to two other and similar demands-from Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. of Cleveland for 50 stations, from Universal Wireless Communication Co. of Buffalo, a new concern, for 125 stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Communications | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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