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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FRANCIS M. STIFLER Editor "The Main Liner" Ardmore, Pa. Grand Junction, Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...pounds more of flesh than he had on going to the White House. He also took: an engraved golden gridiron from the Gridiron (press) Club; the official picture of his Cabinet autographed by each member; a microphone on a stand built to his measure by the National Broadcasting Co. (Mr. Coolidge, surprised by this last minute gift, said he could use the stand to take his breakfast on); and his final monthly pay check from the U. S. Government ($6,250); contracts to write articles for the Cosmopolitan and American magazines, and the Ladies Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Takings & Leavings | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...destroyed the sugar fraud ring, sent Charles W. Morse to the Atlanta penitentiary, extracted a $30,000 fine out of James Gordon Bennett for running immoral "Personal" advertisements in the old Herald. (Simultaneously the outgoing Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg, was engaged in smashing the old Standard Oil Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers & Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tycoons' A B C | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Fleishhackers. Prominent, for example, are the Fleishhackers-Brothers Mortimer and Herbert. Lean, reserved, relatively unsocial is Mortimer, president of Anglo-California Trust Co. Sharply contrasted is Herbert, stocky, rumpled, good-mixing president of Anglo & London Paris National Bank. A poker-player, a crap-shooter is Herbert; he plays also a talkative game of mediocre and expensive bridge. He unsuccessfully backed local horseracing and doodlebug enterprises. He once raised 600 species of orchids on a bet. The Fleishhackers have wide interests in oil, rails, utilities, industrials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Big San Francisco | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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