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Word: conventioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1856 he was born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Taggart | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Despite Mr. Young's announcement, however, prophets in political circles refuse to omit his name from the list of candidates for the assistant attorney generalship, for he has long been recognized as one of the leading supporters of President Hoover as well as one of the nation's leading lawyers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG REPUDIATES ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPOINTMENT | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

Let Prospective Subscriber Elkins state what she would consider proof of Colonel Lawrence's spyhood. Presumably she does not expect TIME to wring from the British Government the admission that the Empire employs a spy or spies. The Government of Afghanistan has made official, diplo matic protest against Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Per capita consumption of paper should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sol Cheered | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

At the annual convention of the I. C. 4A. in New York last Saturday, R. W. Thayer '29, manager of the Harvard track team, was elected president of the association for the coming year. At the same time R. C. Floyd '10 was chosen a member of the graduate committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. W. THAYER NAMED HEAD OF TRACK ASSOCIATION | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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