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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Paradise | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Many an oldtime Southern Republican wondered how the Slemp trick would work. Virginia Republicans normally muster 75,000 or more votes. The runaway Democrats of 1928 numbered only some 40,000 votes. In the new alliance the majority accepted the minority's major candidate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era, Cont. | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Luther (Cob-Film). The German producers who made this compressed biography of Protestant Martin Luther had to be careful. They could not make him out an inspired and righteous prophet or Roman Catholics might stay away. They could not, on the other hand, suggest as some theologians have, that Luther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

The "S" Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Pleased with the popularity of his naval reductions conferences (see col. 1), U. S. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, after four years in the seclusion of the U. S. Vice-Presidency, continued to create publicity for Disarmament and himself. ¶ He talked some more about why he will serve no alcoholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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