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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All Hands Saved | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

It was 11 a. m., the time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Aboard were Commen-clatore Ettore Modigliani.* as custodian of the pictures, and Signer Umberto Malossi, Fascist Police Inspector-General. Off the coast of Portugal the da Vinci wired that she was caught in a gale, then for two days while she was tossed and harried no word was heard. Captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art at Sea | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

By some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAFETY-FIRST | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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