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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again across the Tariff battlefield in the Senate rumbled the awful Voice from the White House. Weary Senate warriors paused in the confusion of conflict to give ear. In an Olympian third person, the Voice declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...ornate person is the Vice-Chamberlain of Great Britain. He helps with the domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tanker Jack | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Pierpont Morgan is freely extended among men. A cosmopolite, he knows, understands, and likes the thousands of people of all nations with whom he does business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea and he will develop it. Put him in the middle of a problem and he will begin to solve it. The doors of his mind swing easily ajar. That is why he left Exeter (1888) and Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...grim old John Knox ever turned in his grave, last week he turned again. For no less Presbyterian a person than Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, wrote with at least an open mind to his 10,000 pastors on the question of admitting women to preach and hold high office in the Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastoresses? | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Last year when Artur Bodanzky resigned as German opera conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan, his successor was immediately announced to be one Joseph Rosenstock of Wiesbaden. Few had ever heard of such a person, all marveled that a comparative unknown was to fill the most important post in the world's most important operatic organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Debuts | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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