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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gene Rodemich is set in an original act with a good supporting bill in which Fannie Ward has the leading role...

Author: By B. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

Actually, the Smoot-Mellon "delay" was mostly paper work. What with hearings, debates, compromises, the Senate would not get into action on the tax bill much before March 15 anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tax Tactics | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Farm Bureau Federation clings to the equalization-fee of the aged McNary-Haugen Bill. By this plan, each farmer would pay some of his profits into a pot, held by the Government, from which farmers with losses would draw compensation. How to compute such losses? By having the Government fix "a fair price" for all crops each year. Farmers forced (by the presence of a crop surplus) to sell below the U. S. price, would be considered losers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief Rebus | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Married. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, 51, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue, massive center in '99 for the Princeton football eleven, of Manhattan; and Mrs. Norma Jones Steelsmith, 37, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Idol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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