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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Switzerland of America | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Marcia Gunther looked over her left shoulder at the young May moon and so her troubles began. Her husband drowned himself because he thought she meant it when she said she was eloping with another man. Her mother-in-law, a certain doctor friend, and the rest of the town condemned her for infidelity both marital, of which they presumed her guilty in fact, and religious, for they knew her father hated God. After the mother-in-law dies, Marcia wins over the doctor and the town for the happy ending, by sheer force of youth, love, indifference. A satisfying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Lincoln, Neb., "the lady shall place her left hand on the gentleman's right shoulder or arm and her right hand on the gentleman's left hand, the gentleman's right hand on the lady's back, and at all times the patrons shall keep their bodies at least six inches apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dance Halls Surveyed | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Denver. Ray Stevenson, 36, 6 ft., 165 lb., thin brown hair, two bullet scars on right shoulder, wanted for bank robberies at Denver and at Englewood. Reward: $1,500. Warning: "Desperate bank robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Housewives who buy in the package in stead of off the carcass will be certain of cut, cleanliness and quality. And the manufacturer will have taken another step toward making the burden of salesman ship weigh even more lightly upon the retailing shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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