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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend John Edgar Park, D. D., LL.D., president of Wheaton College, Norton, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Park Sunday Preacher | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace Prize | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what he is talking about. Said he, without giving any date: ". . . We now have a responsible forecast of a superflood, greater even than the 1927 flood. This is the result of investigations made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...SQUEALER?Edgar Wallace? Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cops and Robbers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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