Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human affairs that nothing in this world is stable which does not rest on habit. You gentlemen of the League are creating the habit of Peace. Persia wishes you speedy success...
...most aristocratic schools, but Henry Byron Warner fitted there all right; his father, Charles Warner, was an actor before him. After finishing with school and with the University College in London, Warner spoke and dressed as though he had been to Eton and Oxford. In the growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore a slight, sharp mustache; his sloping shoulders and handsome, expressive hands gave him distinction. He has been in pictures for 15 years, now plays the district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established...
...since by waving the U. S. flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...
Proud of his success thus far, confident that he can jam the whole Five Year Program through, Dictator Stalin announced last week that he would add another billion dollars to Russia's budget for 1930. thus raising the Soviet Government's total expenditure to five billion dollars per annum (13% more than is spent by the U. S. Government). Further, the area of land under cultivation is to be increased by 8%, and most startling of all, Russian industrial production is to be raised...
...Chicago, which ached so for the ship's sight that her rathäusers telegraphed Commander Eckener that the trip could not be a success unless the Graf Zeppelin visited the second U. S. city, climbed porches, poles and pinnacles. Photographers Robert Hartman and Baron von Perckhammer aboard the ship "nearly went crazy trying to do photographic justice to the scene." Then to Detroit she went, where lay the new little all-metal dirigible (TIME, Sept. 2). Dr. Eckener stopped eating caviar & bread to exclaim: "I never saw such tremendous cities as there are in America." A breath of Canadian...