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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nipper-Snapping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

With his automatic revolver, Lopes fired. The quarry sped on. Then, on Ingraham's order, Machinist Samuel Jones opened machine-gun-fire from the picket boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

The Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

The tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bad Faith! | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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