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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration as does the U. S. Instead of maintaining a dread, jail-like Ellis Island, the Government at Buenos Aires welcomes immigrants in a spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal of Signor Benito Mussolini to allow his fellow countrymen to leave home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

women spread their sails and travel ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Other People's Women. . . . | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members of the Army team, like children who have been playing with toughies, were discovered to be in a condition of total dilapidation, most of them crying, when the game was over. The score was 26-o but it might have been bigger without exaggerating Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: West is Best | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Orchestras played their symphonies last week, operas spilled their tragic tales, but in Manhattan, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto, Brooklyn, Boston, wherever she went, the season's sensation was always La Argentina (TIME, Nov. 19). She has danced ten times in Manhattan now, has seven more recitals scheduled. Tickets stay at a premium, crowds are turned away from every performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Argentina | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Last week the National Federation of Music Clubs invited Soprano Rosa Ponselle to head the Honor List in their new Hall of Fame for rising U. S. artists. Hereafter, within the Federation, Nov. 15 will be known as Rosa Ponselle Day. On that day ten years ago Ponselle, daughter of poor Italian immigrants, made her Metropolitan Opera debut, singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino, with Caruso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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