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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Spaciously last week Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin gestured toward the million Tadjiks who industrially grow cotton in Tadjikistan and fluently speak Farsit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tadjiks Promoted | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...more unselfish, more devoted. ... In the early years she took care of the children herself and did all her own washing, ironing and cooking. . . . She has always been head of the household and was christened by one of the children Chairman of the House Committee. . . . When I rose to speak, after I had her located, I felt I was all right. . . . She has openly proclaimed that she thinks I am the greatest man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Tammany. "After all, Tammany Hall for a century has been the dominating political party in the city of New York. . . . Had I accepted advice, I would not have spoken in Tammany Hall just one week after my nomination for the Presidency. But I had my strongest inclination to speak in Tammany Hall at just that very time. I had been identified with Tammany Hall for a quarter of a century. I always had its full and loyal support. I felt that in my hour of great success my place was among my friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...address the students during the coming months. The Honorable Emory R. Buckner, former federal district attorney of New York City will have for a topic "Practice in New York City", on Tuesday evening, November 12. January 17, the Honorable E. F. Katzenbach, Attorney General of New Jersey, will speak on "The Lawyer in Public Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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