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...armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor. ("The only thing Oriental about me," she once wrote, "is my face.") In the early 1920s, she was a flower of Shanghai's intellectual community when she caught the eye of Chiang Kai-shek. He was then chairman of the Supreme National Defense Council. Neither minded that he already had a childhood bride and a son tucked away in the provinces. In 1927, Mei-ling...
...part of their campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church—and in an effort to make money—the Soviets took the bells from the monastery and sold them to Charles R. Crane, an American industrialist, in the 1920s. Crane then donated them to Harvard in 1930, and Lowell residents soon created their Sunday tradition of bell-ringing...
Men’s Full Body Bathing suit à la 1920s and 1930s...
...miss the opportunity? Ever since the 1920s, oil-shale pilot plants have been opening and closing in Colorado, reflecting the Federal Government's failure to develop a consistent energy policy. But in 1980, at long last, shale seemed poised for takeoff. Two traumatic Persian Gulf oil crises in the 1970s had sent oil prices zooming and had given rise to high hopes in Washington and the oil industry that shale would develop into a synthetic-fuel industry. To encourage domestic production, Congress enacted the synfuels tax credit and also created the Synthetic Fuels Corp. As envisioned by President Jimmy Carter...
...techniques of photography, film and high-speed presses - who conjured up the images. The show begins with early esoteric work like Kliment Redko's 1924 Uprising, a black and flaming red square-within-a-square symbolizing the cosmic force of the Bolshevik Revolution. But by the late 1920s, the Left Front movement, which included filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, had turned to a more accessible and representational art. Before long, Gustav Klutsis and Alexander Gerasimov had perfected the stiffly staged portraits - as reverential as old Russian icons - that mythologized Lenin and glorified Stalin. The familiar Gerasimov portrait of Stalin, looking kindly...