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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is certainly to be hoped that the plan will work out successfully, because it will go a long way towards the solution of the professional problem in tennis. It seems inevitable that we are going to have tennis pros just as we have them in golf, and the sooner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

The director of "Love, Live and Laugh", the present offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Another problem (recited by Dr. Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

When Speaker Longworth resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: H.J. Res. 133 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

But there was more work to do and Speaker Longworth allowed the House no dalliance. Promptly taken up and considered was the first of the appropriation bills, $283,189,000 for the Interior Department.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: H.J. Res. 133 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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