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...Cuban Ambassador prepared to sail for Havana, where there is almost always a cool breeze. At the Brazilian Embassy there was a great packing of trunks and boxes for a move to the Adirondacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exodus | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Bomboola. Out of the inexhaustible deeps of Harlem came this musical comedy, less percussive than last fortnight's amazing Hot Chocolates, tending more toward Negro moods of grace and .pathos. High spot: a party scene in which the dancing couples move their feet least of all and become revivalists at the entrance of the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...headlong pacifiers, checked, promised to move cautiously against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Grass Growing | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Could not Lose | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Consequently as a purely defensive move, disregarding any support which might be expected from other nations of the British Empire, Canada should IMMEDIATELY proceed to negotiate an offensive and defensive alliance with Mexico and Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hush Stuff | 7/1/1929 | See Source »