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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department has exonerated the Museum and Dealer Demotte. Latest suspect is a Paris art dealer who is "traveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Chiang has put off his going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Geographical Reasons | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Married. Bainbridge Colby, 59, Wilsonian Secretary of State; and a Mrs. Anne Von Ahlstrand Ely, 39, in Brooklyn. Last month he was divorced at Reno by Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, from whom he had sought divorce in Paris; with whom he had a $1,500-per-month agreement to keep her from ridiculing him in her writings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...position at Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 years a diplomat, he has served at Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Peking. He was an expert Far Eastern advisor to the U. S. delegation at the Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22). For a time (1924) he served as Assistant Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Died. Norman Trevor, 52, longtime legitimactor (A Kiss For Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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