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This six-way dissipation of the Dorrance estate by no means slices it into inconsequential lots. Even one-eighth represents a sum few men amass. For filing of the will indicated that the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dorrance Estate | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Worcester Academy ended Andover's nine year supremacy in schoolboy track to amass a total of 51 1-2 points and win the Class A championship in the 45th Annual Harvard Interscholastic Track Meet held in the Stadium Saturday afternoon. Jack Healey and Frank Gleason of Worcester were the individual stars of the meet and won the title for their school collecting 25 points of their team's total score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER WINS SCHOOLBOY MEET | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination and election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette v. Kohler | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...victors were not unscarred by battle, for their determination to amass a controlling majority of NAT stock sent the price soaring. During the first quarter of this year, the price range was between 11 and 25¾. United paid as high as 30 to gain its end. Finally they were forced to give one share of United for three of NAT. (United's original offer was one-for-three-and-one-half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Rentschler Triumphant | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decency Squabble | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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