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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon the jury found for Miss Adele; and Mr. Justice Humphreys was obliged to sentence the constables to 18 months imprisonment for "conspiracy to prefer a false charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Lack of Ambient | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Soon Conquering Lion Tafari, who claims to be a descendant of Biblical King Solomon, was crowned, and a seven-day feast began. It was made all the merrier by the arrival of a cablegram from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: King of Kings | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...prolific subject for cartooning was the confused interparty "bolting" that began so soon as both Nominees were known. Nelson Harding drew a comic picture called "Any Man's Land," with voters running across, crawling across, tripping, tumbling, spinning in circles, bumping stomachs, going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Keith-Albee vaudeville enterprise was swinging in a great, open parabola. It had only theatres and actors. But it was not a closed corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: R. C. A., K-A-O, F. B. O. | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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