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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For some time the writer of that column has been Walter Winchell, no ordinary scandal-scooper. Famed is he in theatre lobbies, speakeasies, night clubs. From one gossip-centre to another he travels to get column material. Alert, the Winchell ears hear all. Amiable, the Winchell disposition makes friends easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turn to the Mirror | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

E. W. Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Guesser | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

"We may fairly claim for the plan that it reflects our best judgment of what the settlement ought to be, arrived at with the advice, not of the governments, but of the peoples, functioning through the press which modern communications have made instantly effective in every interested country in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: By the People's Advice | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

"If I had been looking for a sinecure or a popular office this is certainly not the one I should have chosen," said Privy Seal Thomas. "We fought the election largely on unemployment, and we all believe it to be the only real fundamental question involved. I realize what I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only Fundamental Question | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Problem. What he is up against is an official figure of 1,132,300 men out of work as of May 27, 1929, an increase in a fortnight of more than 27,000 unemployed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only Fundamental Question | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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