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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bonfire. Soon a mob trampled through shrubbery and flowers in the Schmerling-Platz, then rushed the vast, imposing Justiz-Palast. Neat clerks and bearded officials were seized by burly rioters and thoroughly tousled. Mobmen ransacked the Palace for papers of every sort, dumping them without discrimination on a large, roaring bonfire. From this the woodwork of the great building ignited, spurting tall flames. Throughout the crowd men still mouthed and gibbered, "JUSTICE. . . . Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Riots | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Hugh Gibson was known as a routine "career man," 19 years in the State Department's service, member of at least half a dozen smart clubs in various European capitals, and generally the sort of man who works hard around an embassy, golfs and dines, sees his tailor often?and is forgotten when a "Big Man" must be found to go out and negotiate for his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cruiser Crux | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...bravely set forth to persuade other case-hardened oil operators of his state to pinch down their oil production and thus conserve their underground pools for the future (TIME, May 23), last week gave up. He ceased arguing and appealed to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to invent some sort of rule to restrain the present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla., had just tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil Production | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...revue at all. It is less clever, more loud, bawdy, vulgar and-to people who like that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Tilden in the semifinals, 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3. Said Mr. Tilden: "Age, I think it is. I used to win this sort of match myself. But are we downhearted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Wimbledon- Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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