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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Estate, Will. Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan last week asked a Miami, Fla., court to explain ambiguities in the will & testament of her husband, the late Lawyer William Jennings Bryan. His estate added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Albany, the Reverend Charles Jarvis Harriman, Rector of the Church of St. James the Less at Philadelphia, undertook to explain. Said he: "We believe in these things not because they are Roman, but because they are right. They are more than Roman-they are catholic, and the Episcopal Church is catholic. Not Roman, but catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglo-Catholic Congress | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Meanest Man, The Scarecrow. Then, in When Tutt Meets Tutt, the last story in the book, they fight on different sides of a great dispute about the will of the late Commodore Lithgow. To readers previously acquainted with the legal acrobatics of the two Tutts, it is unnecessary to explain how the elder and more talented member of the firm, aided by the unexpected, scores his point. Such readers will hope that the mind of Author Train, which has already produced, among his other works, Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, Tutt and Mr. Tutt, will be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Gentleman Johnny | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Summerall Incident" closed, President Coolidge admitted that he had recalled Major General Charles Pelot Summerall from the West to have him explain his reported remarks about the "disgrace" of Army housing (TIME, Oct. 24); announced that General Summerall's disavowal of the remarks was accepted. The President talked Army budget matters with General Summerall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Bronx (New York City borough) lives a Mrs. Jean Sagerman, furrier's young wife. To her apartment last week came a man. Mrs. Sagerman listened to the man explain that he was a doctor and that her husband had sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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