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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he visited Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, at his Chicago home. He walked around the private Lasker golf links but swung no club. Newsmen asked him why he did not play. "I don't like golf," replied the Vice President who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Number Twos | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

While the U. S. Davis Cup team was having a good time taking all five matches from Germany last week on the Rufous Scoria courts of Berlin's Rotweiss (Red White) Club, sport-scribes were having a good time cabling details that did not appear in the scores. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Belgian Marks | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Editor Davis, though forced to neglect France, Italy, all of South America and Africa, nevertheless manages to collect in this book the opinions of 31 labor leaders from the rest of the world, 13 of them from the U. S. and Canada.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Labor Looks at Religion | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Pilot Parker W. ("Shorty") Cramer, 33, was the man who initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Untin' Bowler | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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