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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
Three years ago there was no Borger, Tex. Then from deep-driven pipes in Hutchinson County spurted oil. Today Borger is a city of 10,000, county seat of Hutchinson, a slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General...
Returning via Key West from a Caribbean junket two years ago, Chicago's Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson was allowed "free entry" for ponderous baggage, which, on investigation, was found to contain kegged gallons of rum, bottled quarts of strong liquors. A U. S. judge at Key West harkened to the Congressman's plea that the liquor belonged to his brother-in-law Walter Gramm. Congressman Michaelson was exonerated (TIME, May 20). Last week another U. S. judge at Key West accepted Brother-in-law Gramm's plea of guilty, fined him $1,000 and costs...
Fifteen years ago that continent launched upon a terrible experience. Much ink has been spilt over the military and political phases of the great conflict. Only now are we beginning to realize what a shock was given to Europe's well ordered life apart from the battlefield. That she is recovering is a source of gratification to us. It is Europe that takes almost half of all the goods we sell, besides sending us a third of all we buy. Asia sends us another third. But Europe is always easily first as buyer of our products. She is not only...
...what uncertain business conditions that appeared in September particularly in the direction of automobiles, "specialties" and rubber brought the shift in public opinion, whether the recent discussion of the Massachusetts, Public Utilities' Commission unsettled the upward movement, or whether the Bank of England's raising its rate a month ago exerted the final pressure that broke the market is in a sense an academic question...