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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers' Dilemma | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

What Ignace Jan Paderewski was thinking as he sat on the terrace of his villa at Morges, above Lake Geneva, Switzerland, one evening last week, is not a matter of record. He might have been thinking of his U. S. tour, scheduled to begin on Oct. 22, or he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chalet de Riond Bosson | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chalet de Riond Bosson | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

It is an axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Many Waters. It is a favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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