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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Staggering tales are told of the earning power of Soprano Alma Gluck's gramophone recordings. One of them has it that her Park Avenue home in Manhattan was purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Profits | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Two years ago Max Phillips, money maker in collars, was annoyed. He believed himself threatened with arrest for violation of the Mann Act. He sued his nephew by marriage Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of United States. He believed an arrest had been "framed" to ruin him. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Ire | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

The representative of Stone & Webster admitted that the subway was no place for "fragile" people, but he blushed when the other charge was brought. A witness reported overhearing a middle aged woman who was pressed against a young dastard say "You wouldn't dare insult me, sir, if Jack were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOWER REGIONS | 1/4/1928 | See Source »

A lion roared legally last week; a mouse hid defiantly behind its lawyers. The Crowell Publishing Co. sued the Italian Monthly Co., Inc., seeking to enjoin them from printing across the cover of their new magazine The New American. The lion complains this title might be confused with The American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Plaintive Lion | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Under a permit dated March 3, 1925, Illinois and its Chicago sanitary district have been drawing some 8,500 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Illinois Upheld | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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