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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In his show are many wood-panels of nymphs and Nationalistic God-heads. Moses appears in two forms: a bust and a full-length bronze of seething, impassioned aspect. In an era when it is fashionable to divorce art from religion and other such influences, Ivan Mestrovio, bred close to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Absent Ivan | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Across the wasteland of Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: C.O.D. Trek | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Franklin Buchanan, probably named after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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