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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some grape-growing industrialists resent the activity of vineyardists who sell their juice for winemaking. To the Federal Farm Board last week they sent as their representative Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, to explain such "questionable practices," to try to induce the Board to withhold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Grape | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Cleveland is the largest of some 400 U. S. city-manager-plan cities. Next largest is Cincinnati where last week a determined effort was being planned by old-line Republican politicians to gain control of the city council at the November election, to restore politics to the city government, oust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cleveland Idyll | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Last October, the publishing world talked about an unhappy coincidence. Simultaneously with publication in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, of a savage burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epitaph | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Thomas William Lamont. First authoritative word that choleric Chancellor Snowden was losing the support of British financiers came at London from Thomas William Lamont, brisk, decisive, crinkly-eyed partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. Chatting with a correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Haggle | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Every time British statesmen resolve to grapple with the baffling problem of Britain's 1,295,000 unemployed they turn first and instinctively to Canada. The granary of the Empire is underdeveloped, needs men. Britain is industrially overdeveloped, has too many men. In London the solution looks simple: send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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