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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associated with Soucy on the committee will be W. C. Baylies '84, S. V. R. Crosby '91, H. S. Grew '96, J. W. Farley '99, James Lawrence '01, C. J. Swan '01, L. H. Leary '05, H. C. Clark '11, R. T. Fisher '12, M. J. Logan '15, W. B. Felton '19, C. C. Buell '23, P. H. Theopold '25, and Leo Daley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL BANQUET WILL BE HELD ON DECEMBER 19 | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...part, given her by Director Harrison Grey ("Mr. Minnie Maddern") Fiske was that of a Negro maid in Mrs. Boltay's Daughters. She acted hither and yon until Arthur Richman's sweetish comedy Not So Long Ago remained on Broadway for two seasons. Two greater successes followed: Liliom, The Swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review's old colors of blue and buff, that new Century rose from the ashes. Said Editor Howland: "Within these blue and buff covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Magazines | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce's Swan Song | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Billy" Hughes, safely elected to Parliament, was less polite to the swan sung Bruce. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce's Swan Song | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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