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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis toured abroad, visiting and nurturing foreign chapters of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which he has been director-general for 22 years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Moose Member | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

An event more cheerful than many an opening night will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

John Van Ryn spent the spring at Princeton because it was his senior year; George M. Lott went abroad on the Davis Cup squad, played tennis. Yet Van Ryn extended Lott to five sets last week before Lott turned Van Ryn into a pillar of fault, ran out the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Two great racqueteers have alienated public favor when it might have done them the most good. One was Vincent Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Should the title of U.S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis be changed, in the near future, he would probably become not "Secretary of Peace" but "Secretary of the Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: War will be Peace? | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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