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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time Mr. Insull acquired large holdings in Western United. He said: "I have no securities whatever in public utilities. There is not a dollar of utility money invested in my newspapers." He did say he still holds 12.500 shares of Western United in trust for his wife, his sister and one W. W. Tracy of Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power & the Press, cont. | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard. Young Sister Elizabeth talks about sex right out in the open and vents a precocious materialism. She and her mother so belabor gentle Geraldine that she, cowed, consents to marry Chandler. But beforehand, with an abandon quite inconsistent with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Died. General W. Bramwell Booth, 73, at his home at Hadley Wood, England, where he had lain ill since his ousting from Salvation Army leadership by Sister Evangeline Booth and others (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Ethel Barrymore, according to last week's announcement by Producer Lee Shubert, will act in blackface next season. The play: a dramatization of Julia Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize novel Scarlet Sister Mary (TIME, May 27). The role: a South Carolina Negro prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck nearer his foot than the log. Pauline Uzcudun, sister of Paulino, is also a Basque woodchopper and weighs 220 Ib. Uzcudun likes to have women around his camp, big and little, relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milk & Money | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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