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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carl Van Vechten (class of 1903). But among the many now-famed names and faces which Barber Bratfish has known ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...three others: Harry Pratt Judson, 1906-23; Ernest DeWitt Burton, 1923-25; Max Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio's Fourth | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...short, plump, roundfaced, grey-haired, swift-speeched, handshaking Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose custom it has always been to give weekly dinners to his Minneapolis employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foshay's Fall | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foshay's Fall | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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