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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second: Bishop James Cannon Jr. did not head the delegation but attended as President of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
Legislative hobby: Laws against cotton speculation, the boll weevil and Federal crop reports which depress cotton prices. His friends consider him the Senate's "cotton expert." He publicly complained that President Hoover put no "real cotton man" on the Farm Board...
...largest ship (Lloyds' rating): Majestic (56,621 tons, according to U. S. Shipping Board rules 61,206), Leviathan (34,282 tons, or by U. S. Shipping Board measure 59,957 tons), Berengaria (52,226 tons), Bremen (50,000 tons...
...ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...
Elected. Linwood A. Miller, 44, first vice president of Willys-Overland Co., to be president, succeeding John North Willys, retired (TIME, July 22), who becomes board chairman...