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Word: franked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate the S-4 disaster convened last week at Boston, visited the S-8 (sister of the 5-4. With the S-8, personnel and equipment arranged as the S-4's presumably had been, the Court quizzed the S-8's red-headed young commander, Lieut. Frank L. Worden, to visualize the instant and circumstances of the S-4's goring by the destroyer Paulding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S-4 Aftermath | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S-4 Aftermath | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Between the pudgy, rheumatic yet capable fingers of a great statesman a pen quivered. Aristide Briand was signing, last week, a cablegram to Frank Billings Kellogg. This was the third vital stroke in a game of diplomatic shuttlecock played since last spring between the Foreign Minister of France and the U. S. Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebuff Rebuffed | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Cleveland law office, that of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, there sat last week among the lawyers two men, Frank A. Seiberling, 69, and his old friend, Edgar B. Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business is Business | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...business depression which jostled William Crapo Durant out of General Motors jolted Frank A. Seiberling out of Goodyear. He retained his stock in the corporation, but had no money. As many men did, Edgar B. Davis knew of the wreckage; as few men did, he went to Mr. Seiberling's help. Together they formed the Prudential Securities Co. Mr. Davis put in $500,000 and guaranteed $5,000,000 of company pledges. To the Prudential Securities Co. Mr. Seiberling pledged his Goodyear stock and other personal assets, and thereby secured cash. Friend Davis in a corporate way had loaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business is Business | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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