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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To the opulent estancieros whose ranches cover most of Argentina the smartest rendezvous on earth is El Jockey Club in sophisticated Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trade Embassy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Common is the belief among Easterners that all Big Business news originates in the East. Proud Californians have long disagreed, pointing for proof to California's many flourishing industries. Last week Californians were given fresh proof of their importance. Dow, Jones & Co., financial news-distributors, publishers of the Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: West of Wall Street | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

In Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co. was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser plates, died there.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

In Cambridge, Mass., federal narcotic agents searched an apartment. Finding nothing, they started to leave. Suddenly one of them stopped, stooped, pulled some drugs out of a dog's mouth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

It was a popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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