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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canaan, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the state police cast bread upon the waters, literally. He was hunting for the body of a Mrs. George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bread & Corpse | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., Sept. 23 Mrs. Mary Sweazey, proud possessor of a three story brick building on High Street in this city, is literally sitting athwart the $12,000,000 expansion program of Yale University. Directly in the path of the growth of Yale University is her house, and nothing short of a court order seems likely to evict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VS. MRS. SWEAZEY STIRS NEW HAVEN COURT | 9/24/1926 | See Source »

Died. Charles Hopkins Clark, 77, famed editor of the Hartford Courant and Associated Press director; at Hartford, Conn. Mr. Clark once refused his choice of an ambassadorship or a Cabinet post under President Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other individual." Meanwhile, Mr. Rosenwald arrived at White Pine Camp, became slightly ill, postponed his session with the President for a day. Finally they conversed. The press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Julius Talks to Calvin | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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