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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loew's State--"The Pagan". A fairly good picture, chiefly notable as presenting Ramon Novarro in a singing role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...University diamond dusters are scheduled to take on the Rhode Island State Aggregation at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODE ISLAND NINE ENGAGES CRIMSON THIS AFTERNOON | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...mountain chain which divides European from Asiatic Russia) Professor Preobrajenski discovered oil. Thereupon the Soviet Supreme Economic Council bestowed upon him a reward (a "gratification") of 10,000 rubles (approximately $5,000). The Professor was "gratified" rather than "paid" because of the prevailing theory that services to the Russian state are recompensed by promotion and power rather than by so capitalistic an invention as capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gratification v. Pay | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

When nations make a treaty, most of their citizens take it for granted that that is that; that the proper state authorities will thereafter see to it that the treaty is recorded, remembered, honored, enforced -or abrogated if necessity impels. Not so lightly do 186 British and U. S. ministers and educators regard the so-called Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: People of Good Will | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...famed as the intellectual crib of the late Herbert Henry Asquith and many another statesman who rose under Her late Majesty Victoria. The finality of royal assent was given in England, last fortnight, to a bill providing for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states from which annually four Rhodes scholars will be chosen. The old method allotted wo scholarships (once every three years) 10 every state (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Professors | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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