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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputation as a radical. Col. Lindbergh has comfortable, conservative political views, if any. Many another son has followed his father into high office. Only one President's son has become President (John Adams-John Quincy Adams); only one President's grandson has become President (William Henry Harrison-Benjamin Harrison). But two Senators' sons now sit in the Senate: Frederick Hale of Maine whose sire was the late great Eugene Hale (1836-1918) and Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin, the Peter Pannish offspring of sturdy "Battle Bob" (1855-1925). In the House today is found a rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fathers & Sons | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Patriarch Photius | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Divorced. Mrs. Lois Knowlston Dodge Manning, onetime wife of Horace E. Dodge Jr., motor maker; from Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Manning. Grounds: extreme cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice President Benjamin B. Peabody of the New York Exchange unhesitatingly attributed the crash in coffee futures to "disquieting rumors regarding the situation in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coffee Crisis | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...visitors to the Sixth International Petroleum Exhibition and Congress, held in Tulsa, Okla. Yet to oilmen entertainment such as this can be only transitory. Always jostling their composure is knowledge that world consumption trails production. But one development during the Exposition cheered them, so cheered ever-optimistic Edwin Benjamin Reeser, president of the American Petroleum Institute, that he predicted U. S. production and consumption would balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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