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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that...
...attention of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee it came that unprincipled footballers have been blowing up their balls in strange shapes-with irregular snouts that might be used as handles in forward passing; with fat sides to make punts fly short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from...
Last week, however, one U. S. banker did speak his mind on speculation, flayed not only the Market but also the newly organized investment trusts, which he called "incorporated stock pools." This banker was Paul Warburg, Board Chairman of International Acceptance, which recently (TIME, Dec. 31) merged with Bank of the Manhattan Co. One of the formulators of the Federal Reserve System, a member of the Federal Reserve Board from 1914 to 1918, Mr. Warburg was eminently qualified to discuss stocks and money...
...constructed oil combination. Colonel Stewart's future is discussable because his potent past was abruptly closed last week at Whiting, Indiana. There, in a public building, he presided with great cheer at the annual stockholders meeting of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, of which he was Chairman. Profits for 1928, said he, were $83,000,000, a fifty million dollar increase over 1927.* But, as everyone could foretell, he was not reelected to the Board, because, after the most famed proxy fight in recent business history, he controlled only 2,954,986 shares whereas Lawyer W. W. Aldrich, brother...
...directors were Dr. William M. Burton, onetime President of Standard of Indiana; Melvin A. Traylor, president of Chicago's First National Bank; Thomas S. Cook and Dr. Gentry S. Cash. President Edward G. Seubert, a Stewart man, retained his position. Indeed, his functions were increased, since no Board Chairman was elected to succeed Col. Stewart...