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Dates: during 1920-1929
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May I call attention to an error in the title below the picture on p. 14, TIME, Nov. 25? It should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ In the East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The next day another Lakin letter, written to Mr. Shattuck himself, was turned up by the Committee.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Letters of Lakin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Trans-Atlantic South | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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