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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Died. John Bennett Daniel, 29, of Manhattan, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, introducer of many a famed speaker (President Hoover and Coolidge), describer of many a famed event (Lindbergh reception, Graf Zeppelin arrivals at Lakehurst, inaugurations); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, "Singing Tower" at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia's Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen's villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Tennis is as tennis does. There was a certain amount of U. S. grumbling last week when the U. S. Wightman cup team permitted five English women, not including able Eileen Bennett,* to come within a few aces of keeping the trophy in the matches played at Forest Hills, L. I. But the fact of the matter was that England, strapped though she is for male players, is a major power on the women's courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wightman Cup | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Integrations | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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