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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heckler: "You cut the rates on higher incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...There is something on the track. There is something standing in the way of a clear-cut statement. ... I will leave it to your imagination, but let me say this, putting it in as mild a way as I can, the Administration in Washington must, to some slight degree, have been in sympathy with the propaganda that was put out through this country by the joint committee [Power Lobby] of the National Electric Light Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off The Sidewalks | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Danish Landsting (Senate) were elected last week for an eight-year term. The other two-thirds were elected four years ago for an eight-year term. Last week's voting resulted in slight gains for the Socialist-Pacifists (who demand abolition of the Danish army), and cut down from ten to four the majority in the Landsting now held by Liberal Prime Minister Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. The Folketing (Lower House) was elected two years ago for a four-year term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Queer Election | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

About 1866, Inventor Alex. Lagerman invented the Universal matchmaking machine. This extraordinary device automatically cut the splints, dipped them in sulphur, affixed the tip, dried the matches, packed them in cardboard wrappers. It is still in use in Jonkoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tandsticksaktiebolaget | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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