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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years old. The National League of Former Army Officers gave him what approximated a state banquet in Berlin. Doors and windows were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Kultur | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...hand there is a display in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, appropriate to the season. This collection consists of a number of different sorts of volumes of Christmas Carols, Songs, stories, and so forth. One of the two show-cases is quite resplendent with the characteristic bright reds, blues, and golds of illuminated manuscripts, many of which illustrate typical Christmas scenes such as the nativity. One of the most noticeable of these is "A Booke of Christmas Carols" illuminated from ancient manuscripts in the British Museum. This was edited by Joseph Cundall in London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Another Big Business errand last week took President Hoover to the great brown-panelled hall of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce across Lafayette Park from the White House. There under the bright flags of Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...been peckish at his food. In recent weeks royal doctors have asked for special recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink "preserved milk," specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain's royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink milk to make a pink milk pudding. All six of Their Majesties were said at Sandringham to have pronounced it "extraordinarily palatable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pink Milk | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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