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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To such a man, "any office, even as exalted as that of U. S. Senator," now seems to possess less opportunity for public service than his own private activities. Or so he told Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee last week when the Governor asked him to fill the seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tennessee's Seat | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Died. Lawrence Davis Tyson, 68, of Knoxville, Tenn., U. S. Senator from Tennessee; at Strafford. Pa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Each special election on city management has, however, produced a smaller majority for Manager Hopkins. Last week he won by a scant 3,000 votes after Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cleveland Idyll | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses met in New York City last week and uttered plaints. The U. S. Negro population is about 10,000,000 and only 365 colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Colored Nurses | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

THE WOMAN OF IT-Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloryifying Ma | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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