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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Cave is now 69 years of age, was a scholar of St. John's College. As plain George Cave he entered the world from secluded Oxford to qualify in the legal profession. He attained a success which, if not brilliant, was solid and remunerative. He entered politics late in his legal career, being elected as Conservative member for Kingston in 1906, the year of the great Liberal victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Oxford's Chancellorship | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...have two fixed ideas well known to my friends, harmless obsessions with which I sometimes bore them, but which have a direct bearing on this important problem. The first is the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out he statement.... My second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Osler | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...Hughes, age 35, was graduated from Brown University in 1909, Harvard Law School in 1912. He has been associated with the law firm of Byrne and Cutcheon; then Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft; and since 1917, he has been a member of the firm ot Hughes (Sr. and Jr.), Rounds, Schurman (brother of the now U. S. Ambassador to Berlin) and Dwight. All these firms are in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Y | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...long run, as in the case of the Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Liberian Rubber | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...died one James M. Reid, builder, leaving a considerable estate to his children and providing that, "in the hope they might develop a greater degree of respect and consideration for their father than they have shown during their lifetime," they should not receive a penny until they reached the age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Carp | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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