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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince, buyer and seller of railroads, with his 70-room Prides Crossing, Mass., home, is amply rich for the French ambassadorship. He already spends eight months of each year at his homes in Paris and Pau. His son, Norman, was one of the founders of France's Lafayette Escadrille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Empty Posts | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Richfield Oil's President James A. Talbot, Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Detroit Show | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...nearly 20 years Dr. Norman Hutton was St. Chrysostom's rector. He was famed for his scholarly, dignified manner. His tact quelled brewing intramural quarrels. His persuasiveness brought much money to the church which he remodeled and enlarged. Last September, however, he resigned and Dr. Abbott succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gold Coast to Blue Grass | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...fireworks burn red, that boron, which volcanoes heave forth, that titanium, which makes war smoke screens, that vanadium, which hardens steel−that such metals of horrendous connotation were also in solution was a revelation made to U.S. householders only last week, from Cornell University. Drs. Jacob Papish and Norman C. Wright made the discoveries there with a spectroscope. The metallic contents are "small but definite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metallic Milk | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...being Bob Hall who amuses with his extemporaneous songs, in which he takes the bald gentleman on our right and the fat lady in front for his subjects. The Lester and Irving trio produce one of the cleverest acts on the program with unusually difficult athletic stunts. Tony and Norman put on a bit of fast repartee, while Bobby Watson and Mary Lawlor, two former musical comedy stars also have an interesting song and dance...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

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