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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the walls striped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Smartchart | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...victory was really out of bounds, because the Treaty of Ghent had been executed two weeks before; 'but no more out of bounds, in Secretary Good's opinion, than the cows that now roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Out of Bounds | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Last fortnight flames licked about this Democratic shrine. Two barns, a corn crib and the carriage house went up in smoke, down in ashes. Damage: $19,999 (no insurance). Cause: unknown (Republicans were locally suspected of arson on general principles). Caretakers trundled out to safety the coach in which Jackson rode for 30 days to his first inaugural. Six valiant fire companies from Nashville saved the old mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Out of Bounds | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady, She Couldn't Help It, Ducks and Drakes, Two Weeks with Pay, March Hare, One Wild Week, The Speed Girl, First Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buck-Passing | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Two months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: They Act Alike | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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