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...received his M.A. in 1915, and his Ph.D. in 1916. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he taught at Western Reserve University, Georgetown University, and Tufts. He served overseas during World War I and was detailed for a time to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. In the early '20s, he served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium...
When Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking '20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and sardonic bias. Now, time has so mellowed Strachey's lèse-majesté that his biography has been accepted both as a classic study of Victorianism and a human portrait of the great Queen...
...good example of what has happened is the Bayerische Motorenwerke, whose automobiles used to be regarded with the same awe in prewar Germany as the Stutz Bearcat in the U.S. of the '20s. Not a single one of the plant's buildings escaped bomb damage; 95% of its remaining equipment was dismantled. "It was all earmarked for India," related Plant Manager Kurt Donath, "but then India was divided into two nations which apparently weren't on the best of terms. Anyway, the representative of one part came here and took all the good machines. Later the representative...
...socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...
Disney and Kamen both started their early careers in Kansas City. There, in the early '20s, Disney was struggling along as a commercial artist, Kamen as a sales promotion man for department stores...