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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years ago Mr. Lowden had his job as able, wartime Governor of Illinois to finish, to seem wholly preoccupied with. Now, as a humble Cincinnatus, he bides on his Sinnissippi Farm at Oregon, Ill., refusing to be called from the plow until the psychopolitical moment. With much honk and ceremony, a large motorcade of his admirers drew up at Sinnissippi last month. Mr. Lowden had known in advance that they were coming, but when he strode out on the porch in riding boots, his greeting to them was an indefinite gesture. Instead of a destination, he gave them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Battling to a splendid finish against the strongest distance runners in the country, Captain J. L. Reid '29 took third place in the Intercollegiate cross-country races in which 19 colleges competed on the Van Cortlandt Park course in New York yesterday, and led his team, with a score of 60, to a second place in the cross-country classic, which was won by Penn State, with a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS TAKE SECOND PLACE | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

...read them over: 'The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story." I was so tired that I had to stop in the middle, go off to p. 26 for a little relief and come back later to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...industrial triumphs. For these advertisements (headlined "LEADERSHIP") the Chamber of Commerce pays. They reveal the personal virtues of leading citizens of industry ?of Gordan Mather, president of the Mather Spring Co.; of J. D. Rittenhouse, for 27 years foreman of the enameling department and responsible for the fine finish of Toledo Scales; of many another. They tell Toledo's advantages: third largest railroad center in the U. S., a municipal university, a greater percentage of home owners than any other city of like size, an art museum endowed with more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alert Toledo | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...first four places were-taken by the University runners. Leslie Flaksman '29 followed Reid and Wildes across the finish line, with R. G. Luttman '29 placing fourth. D. R. Jacobs '29, Yale, finished fifth, and G. B. Lee '30 took sixth tally for the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS LOWER RECORD IN DOUBLE-BARRELED VICTORY OVER YALE | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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