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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago and the University of Chicago are fast accustoming themselves to the presence of 30-year-old Robert Maynard Hutchins, youngest great-university president in the land (TIME, May 6). Last week he addressed Chicago's Union League Club, delivering himself of several quotable remarks, including the following...
...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...
Hottest heat was that between nimble Lady Astor and spry old Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 65. This time the Noble Lady, 50, captured her favorite aisle seat (she lost the race last spring? TIME, July 15). This year, for the first time in the House of Commons, she was hatless...
...must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...
...recent popularity of L'Americain dates from three years ago when Prime Minister Poincaré made him Minister of Public Works in his "Cabinet of Sacred Union" (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Soon he faced a threatened strike of one-third of a million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement?which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincar?...