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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover signed bills to: Appropriate $340,815.08 for the expenses of the special session of Congress; make available $4,250,000 to combat fruit flies in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangers | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Longworth v. Gann. Without warning, armistice ceased in the war against Mrs. Edward Everett Gann as "official hostess" to her brother, Vice President Curtis (TIME, April 15, et seq.). This time the combat moved into front-line trenches as the lady of the Speaker of the House pitted herself against the lady of the President of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Discourtesies | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...fact that Harvard and Princeton meet today in a golf match is in itself a matter of small significance. The two institutions have met in dual combat of this sort several times since the severance of athletic relations. Harvard and Princeton debating teams have also come together on more than one occasion, and athletic events where the two colleges, along with others, have competed are numerous. The excuse for all these seemingly direct cases of intercourse between the two universities, officially separated, has always been found in the more than dual nature of the competitions. The golf matches have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAISSEZ-FAIRE | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...NFPPC was formed to combat the Lucky Strike campaign. Chairman is A. M. Kelley, of Wallace & Co., Brooklyn candy makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babies' Blood | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Adopted a resolution authorizing that $4,250,000 be spent to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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