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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigor and skill alike are purposeless in a banal, disorganized play which depends for impetus on such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Salvation for Conchies | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...jeopardizing their credit standing. Gleeful, therefore, were newsgatherers last week to find one person who admitted her losses, flaunted the amount, even named the stocks she had had. She, a Miss Margaret Shotwell. 19, of Omaha, said that she had lost more than $1,000,000 in Montgomery Ward, Paramount, Cities Service, General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Broken Doll | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Judges tonight, who, with the audience, will render the decision will be Professor N. C. Maynard of Tufts College and Professor Ward Browning of Boston University. Eleanor Mandelbaum '32, president of the Radcliffe Council, will preside, introducing G. W. Harrington '30, chairman of the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD-RADCLIFFE TO JOIN IN MIXED DEBATE | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Tentative plans for the holding of Senior elections were announced last night by J. H. Ward '30, chairman of the Senior Nominating Committee. The nominations for the positions of first, second, and third Marshals, Treasurer, Poet, Orator, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister will be announced next Monday: during the following week, there will be a change for petitions to be made. The election will probably take place on Monday, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS PROBABLY TO VOTE FOR OFFICERS DECEMBER 2 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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