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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third over the record of a similar group the year before. We have had a baby since he was five weeks old cared for in our Day Nursery. He is now twenty months old and in almost perfect physical condition. His mother was an invalid before he was born and within the month died in the Tuberculosis Hospital...
There was once an engineer named John Luther Jones, they called him Casey because he was born near Cayce, Kentucky. He piloted the Illinois Central's Cannonball...
...peasant-born Prime Minister of Rumania, Dr. Juliu Maniu, who has just ousted onetime Dictator Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 19), took characteristic action, last week, as follows...
...full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent-to end the Spanish rule of South America where it began, in Lima. In consequence Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover can visit no South American capital whatsoever without finding, in some especially public place, a statue of BOLIVAR. Though born a Venezuelan his exploits included becoming President of Peru and having Bolivia named after...
...Born in Avon, Ohio, 55 years ago, and educated in the public schools, Harrison Williams has achieved, more thoroughly than 98% of his contemporaries, the titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...