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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bloomingdale's, Manhattan department store, planned to complete its $5,500,000 building program in three instead of five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prosperity Pledgers | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed suicide. Throughout these proceedings Greta Garbo wears beautiful, oulandish clothes. At times her talent even brings a flash of something vital and convincing to the dull, over-photographed sequences. Best shot: three cleaning women eating lunch at the judge's bench after session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...full shock of the news could only be felt by Real Old Yale Men, because the Real Old Fence, which enclosed the Old Campus, was broken in a class rush in 1879. Onty two fragments of that original three-rail barrier are now extant, Photographer Pach's and a section in the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fence and Offense | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...winter competition is the shortest of the three try-outs held yearly by the CRIMSON. It has an added advantage in that it is broken by the Christmas vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SUMMONS CANDIDATES TODAY | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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