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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Coolidge sub-cabinet-William Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Hope | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs, Larry Fay found it easy to switch to the milk business without any great change in work ing hours. His mistake was in attempting to trans fer night club business methods (i.e. polite but firm extortion) to the new enterprise. Even big, established milk companies feared his power. The result was that, when Larry Fay last week received his 57th summons in 14 years, whereas his previous offenses had been minor, this time the charge against him was more serious: conspiracy in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Milk Racket | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Regis were among the jobs on which Herr Kreuger worked as engineer. He also helped to plan and build the Syracuse Stadium, which the late, great Rockefeller-partner John D. Archbold paid for. In 1907 Herr Kreuger returned to Stockholm where, with Paul Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Monopolist | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...From a public telephone several hours later call the great man's home, speak for the jewelry firm, explain that the rings were delivered by mistake and that a salesman (name given) would call to whom, upon identification, the rings should be returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...work in the field of city planning has been diverse. Since 1920 he has been a member of the firm of Olmsted Brothers, city planners and landscape architects. In 1910 he was one of the founders of the magazine "Landscape Architecture;" now he is one of the editors. He was a founder, in 1925, and chief editor of "City Planning Quarterly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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