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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named the contributors ? William Henry Todd, shipbuilder; James J. Riordan, banker; Herbert Lehman, banker; Henry Morganthau, onetime Ambassador; George Gordon Battle, lawyer; James W. Gerard, onetime Ambassador; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas W. Kelly, Anna E. Felix, etc., etc. And told about the biggest contributor of all, William F. Kenny, contractor, who had given $20,000 and loaned $50,000 without security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Questions & Answers | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Passed the bill urged by Col. Lindbergh (opposed by Assistant Secretary of War Davison) to put Air Corps officers on a promotion list separate from other Army officers; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed a bill raising the Army rank of Dr. James F. Coupal, White House physician, from Major to Colonel. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to eradicate pink boll-weevils in cotton States; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed the Senate resolution authorizing $1,000,000 for a George Rogers Clark museum at Vincennes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Beneath the gunmen's disguises were found two U. S. Coast Guardsmen, assigned to watch for border rum-runners. They found no liquor in Motorist Hanson's car. Neither had there been liquor in the car of one J. F. Stearns, into which they had fired three bullets as it topped the Lewiston hill a quarter-hour earlier than Hanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shooting Folks At Night | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Approximately 9,000,000 Chinese are facing starvation in Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cadman Will Save | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Doubles--Lavine and Simons (P) defeated Hill and F. K. Trask '30, 8-6, 3-6, 6-2; Hofkin and Kraft (P) defeated Whitbeck and Ware, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Stanger and Kardon (P) defeated Ingraham and C. R. Hamlen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NET TEAM LOSES CLOSE MATCH TO PENN BY 5 TO 4 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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