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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of curtain raiser to the senatorial appearance of the 66-year-old wool yarn manufacturer, whose fervor for a high Republican tariff is only equalled by his Quakerism, Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee brought in a report in which Grundy lobbying was vigorously flayed. Mr. Grundy was accused of being a campaign "revenue raiser." He was called a "hereditary lobbyist" because his father before him had worked for the McKinley tariff bill. Mr. Grundy's retort about "backward commonwealths" was swept aside as "obviously absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Strange Garret | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Diplomats. The field generals in this spread of economic empire are U. S. diplomatic representatives, whose prime task is to keep the gates of trade peacefully open. The 13 U. S. ambassadors and 28 U. S. ministers are aided by 457 U. S. consuls, trained to report trade opportunities, to note and remove new and old obstacles to foreign commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...best over the quarter-mile distance, but tonight he is out to win a medal in the 500-yard free style, and also in the 100-yard open free style. In the former event he will be pitted against William Squires of the Boston Swimming Association, whose unexpected showing outdoors during the past summer was the feature of the season. Squires captured the 440, 880, and mile outdoor senior championships, but recently he has been bothered by a bad cold, and his condition is reported as being somewhat uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Harvard Team to Enter Swimming Meet to Compete in Roxbury Tonight-Almost All Members of Group are Freshmen | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal basis in the second and third acts seems woefully insignificant after its cosmic one in the first...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knave | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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