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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The United States Civil Service Commission has announced four competitive examinations open to University students. Applications for these positions must be on file with the Civil Service Commission at Washington not later than April 14. The examinations are to till vacancies in the Departmental Service, including the Bureau of Standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Service Announces Examinations | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

¶ Sir Austen's plea against Dawn was shortly described as "a lullaby to please the Germans" and roundly flayed by peppery Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan who served as Vice-Chairman of the Lord Bryce Commission which, during the War, investigated and exaggerated "German atrocities." Flinging the defunct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Straightway a former subordinate member of the Commission, Mr. Herbert F. Manisty, a practicing barrister, informed the press that, in his opinion, Miss Cavell was tried by a competent court and was convicted of the offense for which she was tried, namely "furnishing and supplying men to the enemy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Clarence Dillon, Wall Street banker who flings a swift & broad flail in his financial harvestings,* struck twice against litigation, according to two complaints lodged last week in Manhattan against him. One was that he had created an asbestos trust, the other that he had not given a _go-be-tween...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dillon in Court | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

The disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dillon in Court | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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