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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME readers in Rhode Island will understand why Aram J. Pothier, once Governor of Rhode Island, was not among the New England Governors present at ceremonies in the new North Station in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Seton, in terms which she is unable to understand, that life for him must be a holiday, that he does not want to grab for money. Only Linda shares his lazy, glamorous ambitions. In the last act, of course, it is Linda with whom Johnny Case prepares to go to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Napoleon's Barber. Those who know Author Arthur Caesar, on whose drama this picture is :based, say he is a radical and a pacifist, a definition which makes it hard to understand why Mr. Caesar should have made Napoleon appear a jolly general whose devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Jesus, and the verity of the miracle stories of the old and new Testament." God goes by many another name among Quakers: "the Seed, the Inner Light, the In-speaking Voice, the Christ within, the Word . . . The Hidden Dynamo, The Super-self, The World-father." And "religion as we understand it has nothing to fear from science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quaker Revival | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...prodding of the Grand Rabbi began, and the rude inspectors noted two small leather boxes which he carried with particular care. If it is difficult to estimate the Grand Rabbi's reactions, it is easy to understand the immediate suppositions of the young inspectors. "Open those boxes," they cried. "No," answered the Grand Rabbi. "I won't. Not those." The young men therefore opened the boxes themselves and discovered in them the laws of Moses but not a single diamond. They were the Grand Rabbi's precious tvillim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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