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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retentions. President Hoover last week retained in office: Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau; Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, retired Director of the Budget; Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, since 1921 Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...such wise ones already are Brig. Gen. Albert Clayton Dalton, vice president and general manager of the U. S. Merchant Fleet Corporation, and Samuel Pickard, Federal Radio Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: All Ashore! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...creditors of his defunct tabloid newspapers. One million, two hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary Weir Logan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...night the Maryland echoed with the scufflings of "shellbacks" capturing and securing "pollywogs" for the next day's rites. Officers as well as gobs were chained in the brig until, at 9 a. m.) the parade began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fifteenth Crossing | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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