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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Grace Vanderbilt, 27, daughter of Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Henry Gassaway Davis III, 25, grandson of late Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, onetime (1904) Democratic candidate for Vice President; following an elopement in Manhattan. Brigadier General & Mrs. Vanderbilt in 1896 were married under like circumstances, were forgiven by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

I wish you would discontinue my name on your subscription list as I do not care to read it. In TIME, June 6* you quote a Chicago lawyer saying, Ceasar is as Grudus,† Washington is Benefict Arnold, and United States a Jefferson Davis, intimating that Jefferson, the elected President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

†An error. TIME quoted Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois as follows: "Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had His Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small."- ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Photomaton, Inc. is the company which, organized last April (TIME, April 4), paid one Anatol Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: General, President | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Habitual travelers on the Broadway Limited, "crack" Pennsylvania R. R. train between Chicago and Manhattan, nodded cheerily to Steward Lewis Davis when they entered the dining-car last week. Later they felt even cheerier when Steward Lewis Davis, dean of the Broadway Limited's dining-car staff, brought them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Broadway Limited's 25th | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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