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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When the Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights a week sound pictures are shown there. President Hoover does not care much for "talkies" -"They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blue | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back in the U. S. serving as Secretary Mellon's personal representative before the Senate Finance Committee during the framing of the tax reduction bill of that year. He returned to Berlin, journeyed to Poland with the Kemmerer Commission in 1926, was recalled this month from his Berlin headquarters to take charge of the vast international network that is the U. S. Customs Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Customs Chief | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Professional's Return | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Selling health on the instalment plan was last fortnight suggested to the Chicago Medical Society. President-elect Dr. James H. Hutton suggested that, physicians, when they are called on a new case, estimate the total cost of treatment, have the patient sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would bear 6% interest charges and would fall due at regular intervals, like instalments on a motor or radio. The doctor would take the notes to a special financing corporation and get $35 for every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Collection Stunt | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Answered Bill Wiggins: "I was-I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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