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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commerce, submitted to President Coolidge a legislative program in the interest of his businessmen friends. He urged: ratification of the Berenger-Mellon French debt agreement, reduction of corporation income taxes, early enactment of the McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Roland Hayes, U. S. Negro tenor; to the Countess Colloredo of Austria. The Countess divorced the Count in order to marry the singer. Onetime Nora Iselin of Manhattan, now the Countess Colloredo-Mannsfeld, is married into another branch of the family. Mr. Hayes had been giving successful recitals in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...convenience of its students living in the dormitories across the river, the Business School has installed a branch library in the unused dining room of Morris Hall. About 500 of the most commonly-used books in the Business School courses have been placed on the shelves, and new additions are constantly being made, which will shortly swell the number of volumes to more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 11/16/1926 | See Source »

Since it is improble that a dining hall will be opened in Morris Hall this year, the branch library will remain until the opening of the new Library in the new School. This will probably not take place until next summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 11/16/1926 | See Source »

...this curiosity descends into muckraking and morbidity--as in the case of the "unveiling" of George Washington. In the best examples, however, the verities have not been entirely ignored, but only clothed with more appealing garments. In its lighter moods biography is being softened into fiction. The purely didactic branch still flourishes and will continue to do so as long as there are great men to provide fitting subjects. But the public is learning that a nonfiction book is not necessarily dull one; and that the most fascinatin heroes are not always confined to novels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PERFERVID PAST | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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