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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain turned to warm fog, then back to rain. President Coolidge did not visit his office in the high school at Superior. Col. Lindbergh was reported flying to Brule from Madison, Wis., but he flew on over, landed at St. Paul. One newsgatherer got desperate and hired Carl Miller, a nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rain | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Col. Robt. Wright Stewart, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was last week indicted by the Federal Grand Jury of Washington, D. C., for perjury, in connection with his testimony before the Senate Teapot Dome Committee. The maximum penalty for perjury is five years in jail and a $2,000 fine. Col. Stewart was recently acquitted of contempt before the same Senate committee (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Perjury | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...vote was Curtis, 1,052; with 13 for Vice President Dawes; two for Col. Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War. The only other man to receive a vote was Attorney General Herman L. Ekern of Wisconsin, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vice Presidency | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...problem in contempt which the Senate left behind was settled last week by a jury of eight men, four women. Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was acquitted of contempt charges arising from his refusal to answer questions put to him by the Senate Committee on Public Lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stewart Acquitted | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

These deals have been cited as confirmation of the report that Hearst has ordered his general manager, Col. William Franklin Knox, to cut down expenses by $10,000,000 this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anywhere, Everywhere | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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