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What finally settled the debate was not the sweet reasonableness of Congressmen but the rapidity with which science advances. The boldness with which the so-called Power Trust plies its trade was another contributing factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowshare | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

There, in a corner decked with sweet smelling blossoms, the president of the German Empire† found a polling box and gravely deposited therein his ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hindenburg's Ballot | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...dozen years ago Joseph P. Kennedy, Boston Irish boy just turning his 20's loved to hear Sweet Adeline. The song was the favorite of Boston's recent (1906-07, 1910-14) Mayor, John Francis Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald would sing it in the front parlor of his folksy white home in Dorchester, Boston suburb. Young Kennedy, outside on the porch hammock would give ear and, with him, Rose Fitzgerald. Or while her father's heart pined for "Adeline," they would stroll into Franklin Park, past the monkey house toward the quiet place of the bear pits. Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amusement | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Anna. Young love in the latin quarter is a theme both sweet and sacred for the writer of romantic plays. In this one Lou Tellegen is the Velvet Joe of sculptury and Judith Anderson is his pretty model who poses for him in the nude, who wagers that if he can marry a certain heiress she will give him her all, and who turns out, on the date of payment, to be herself none other than the rich and reckless lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...sick of the sweet and dreary musical comedies which littered Broadway, he produced The Follies, a revue which took its name from the Parisian Folies Bergères and duplicated its gay and daring makeup. New Yorkers, at this time innocent of the malpractice which has since become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ziggy | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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