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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

In the final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

A solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Piddlers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

The maxim used to be that a stock should sell, other things being equal, for about ten times earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Slow Motors | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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