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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I quote from your issue of Sept. 23, at the top of p. 42: "United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled. . . ." The statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

"So far as I am aware, we are still putting lightning rods on churches. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Legion in Louisville | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

In November 1846, she was born on a Kentucky farm. From her mother the girl inherited delusions of grandeur and, possibly, a syphilitic infirmity. Until the age of nine she fibbed regularly, stole money, perfumes and laces from relatives. Then "consumption of the bowels" drove her to bed, where she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christ's Bulldog | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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