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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Weekly | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Emma Otero, 19-year-old Cuban, educated at Cuban government expense, was honored by a flag-draped hall and a telegraphed introduction from Cuban President Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Emmas | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Last year, Federal Radio Commission, arbiter in all wireless controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heroine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Experts agree there is little hope of heading off the Yankees in the American League. Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), Philadelphia's oldtime practitioner, has virtually the same team that proved unequal to the task last year. Other teams have improved but probably not enough. The American League has two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, Baseball | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

The inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENEVOLENT DESPOTISM | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

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