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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgatherers were soon asking Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jim Crow Rector | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

To compile the annual report for such an organization is a long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Golfer, musician, horseman, photographer, Conservative Sir Douglas has been symbolic of his Conservative company. Made a baronet in 1921, he has worked strenuously in both the Manhattan and London offices, has pushed the European development rapidly. Last week he some-what altered his policy of reticence, told stockholders more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intrinsically Native | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ President Ernest Martin Hopkins had a stern welcome prepared for Dartmouth freshmen. Said he, in the convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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