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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, onetime dentist, lives on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, striving to recover health lost in the service of his country. Last week his regular Republican colleague, sightless Senator Thomas David Schall, stopped at the Minnesota State Fair, urged his constituents to offer prayers for Mr. Shipstead's recovery, "although he is not a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Charity | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Gold Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely. It fails because the story-framework is not adequate to the demands made on it. Expert playing by Ina Claire and directing by David Belasco got The Gold Diggers across on the legitimate stage. Miss Claire's role is taken in the picture by a good-looking but not particularly talented young woman named Nancy Welford. Inevitably the feeble gaiety intended in the reversal of the first situation, with the rescuing guardian succumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, British hurdler (Cambridge University), resigned from the Grenadier Guards to enter business in The City (London's Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...third Yale man in the sub-cabinet with charge of aviation. The others: Frederick Trubee Davison, 33, Yale '18, Columbia Law School; David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale '20, Harvard Law School. All three were War flyers. Mr. Young, overseas 18 months, was prisoner in Austria for five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Commerce Promotion | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

This month Mrs. Willebrandt, private citizen, has been telling what she knows about Prohibition. Her articles, syndicated by Publicist David Lawrence's alert Current News Features, Inc., have been appearing in the New York Times, Chicago Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer & many another. Following is a synopsis of her revelations, remedies, sentiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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