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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Gestures | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Teased Mississippi's Democratic Senator Harrison: "I'm surprised that you should deceive your wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Gestures | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Margaret Rutherford, onetime wife of Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and of Sir Paul Dukes; to Prince Charles Murat; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

During the interview, Amanullah's wife, Queen Thuraya, lay, heavy and silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sad Amanullah | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Show Girl. Dixie Dugan lived in dingiest Brooklyn. Light of foot and heart, she obtained an interview with the great Producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. by telling him she bore a message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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