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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable that very few men who use the telephone company service realize the large number of college men who go into the various activities of telephone work every year, or of the definite campaign that has been developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and its associated Companies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...press and no one can fail to recognize the high esteem which Mr. Watson enjoys in Indiana, which kept him first for twelve years in the House and then elected him to terms aggregating 16 years in the Senate. Although Mr. Watson fought Mr. Hoover in the preconvention campaign, Leader Watson and President Hoover now agree that that was "all part of the game," the splendid game of politics. The Senate's leader is now the President's loyal, large-hearted supporter and will undoubtedly so remain, at least until next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leader Watson | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Taggart | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Governor Long, a hot-headed young man, took office last May after a campaign in which he was supported by Col. Ewing's New Orleans States, and Shreveport Times. Soon after, taking office Governor Long began using the state militia to make raids on gambling resorts in the suburbs of New Orleans. Last month the raiders forcibly searched some of their prisoners. Women prisoners were stripped by women bystanders, infuriating their escorts, outraging public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Louisiana's Long | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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