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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress had met to deal with the grave crisis resulting from the recent assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Until President Calles mounted the Tribune and began his 5,000-word address, Mexicans were half persuaded that he would attempt to succeed himself as President, though Mexico's Constitution forbids...
...front to the audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This mousy character was called Bellflower; actually he was Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York Evening Post, making his demure debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...
...idea of the Religious Film Trust won quick approval: to retell biblical stories in pictures with mechanical word & music accompaniment; to make sound-pictures of famed metropolitan ministers in action; to present such sound-picture programs in churches, Sunday schools and other religious assembly halls...
Speculators rejoiced, last week, as one more "ring" was made ready for the traders. When the secretary of the National Raw Silk Exchange mounts the rostrum (sharply at 10:30 a. m., Sept. 11) and utters the word "October," a new commodity exchange will be in operation. Promptly, one of the traders will quote a price, approximately $5. He will have offered to buy or sell five bales (665 Ibs.) of October silk at $5 a pound...
...apple-toddies; but he worshipped womanhood, honor, democracy; and devoted his life to defending these three. This buckskinned Tennessee pioneer worshipped the epitome of exquisite womanhood in Mrs. Rachel Robards, victim of her husband's jealous bullying. He championed her in her plight, and married her the moment word was received that Robards had divorced her. The actual decree was delayed until long after the blissfully ignorant lovers were married. Village gossips taunted Rachel for "living in sin," and Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson...