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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airman Harmon, monied amateur, is by no means unknown to persons less air-unconscious than Baron Cushendun. A contemporary of the Wrights, Curtis, Bleriot, Farman et al., and an ardent balloonist, he now lives in Paris where he attends to the affairs of the International League of Aviators. Most potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bad Faith! | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Where the Vice President lives is of small concern to the U. S. Government, which gives him $15,000 per annum and leaves him to find his own quarters. When Vice President Charles Curtis established himself, his official-hostess sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and Mr. Gann, at the fashionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nobody's Business | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Manager R. L. Pollio of the Mayflower tactfully announced that the Curtis rent was "something around $10,000 a year" and added: "We went after the Vice President and Mrs. Gann with the most attractive proposition we could afford. . . . We are glad to have him here. ... It is an honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nobody's Business | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Curtis went to see Secretary Stimson about Mrs. Gann. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, went to see Secretary Stimsori about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stimson went to see President Hoover about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stim son saw newsgatherers about Mrs. Gann. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Sees It Through | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

In the Senate, Vice President Curtis banged his gavel until the muttering chamber was as quiet as a schoolroom, before he would permit Chaplain E. Barney Thorne Phillips to pray. The President's call was read, four Senators were sworn in. Ohio's Burton delivered a long, moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventy-First | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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