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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The National Tuberculosis Association started selling its Christmas Seals Thanksgiving Day. By New Year's Day the Association through its state and community sub-organizations expects to raise $5,500,000. One-twentieth of the amount ($275,000) will go to the National Association for its general work. The balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Vaccine | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Thus from Amsterdam, Antwerp, London came the sound of many voices mourning the loss of a record Christmas buying season, blaming the recent stock market crash. In Manhattan, arose voices to differ with them. Authoritative among such voices was that of Walter N. Kahn, agile, dark president of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Diamonds | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Annually the Macy's stages this grotesque parade to inveigle children and parents into its Christmas Toy Department. If a balloon is found the finder who sends it back gets a $50 prize. Last week's balloons, including a 168-ft. Krazy Kat-faced dragon, a 30-ft whale, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Medalist | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

As in previous years, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will again give a Christmas reading at the Harvard Union. The reading this year will take place on Monday evening, December 17. The doors will be closed promptly at 8.30 o'clock and late-comers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. COPELAND WILL GIVE ANNUAL READING ON DEC. 17 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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