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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson's choice, the convention designated Mr. La Guardia to make the race against Tammany's James John Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hobson's Choice | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Education 15 scholarships, were awarded, as follows: F. A. Berger, of Daytona Beach, Fla.; G. D. Brock, of Institute, W. Va.; H. E. Frazey, of Hendersonville, N. C.; Austin Scholarships for Teachers. P. B. Diederich 1G.Ed., of Waterbury, Conn., J. R. Hobson, of Cambridge, Ohio; L. K. McNair '26, of Pittsfield; L. E. Stewart, of Virgin Island; W. A. Thomson, of Niles, Ohio; A. K. Tweedie, of Albany, N. Y.: Faculty Scholarships. L. K. McNair '26, of Pittsfield: Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship. O. R. Carlson '28, of Beverly; H. M. Lewis 1 G. Ed., of Claremont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NEXT YEAR GIVEN | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Hopeful of averting such underwater disasters as the S-51 and 54, the Navy Department last week placed orders for the manufacture of 6,300 of the new, successfully tested "lungs" developed jointly by Lieut. C. B. Momsen, Chief Gunner C. L. Tibbals and Frank Hobson, civilian engineer, to help sailors escape from sunken submarines (TIME, Feb. 18). Each of the 2,600 officers and men on submarine duty will be furnished with two or more of the devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lungs for All | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Joyhopping Publisher | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...potent London automobile insurance firm of Hobson, Allfrey & Wheeler announced, last week, that it will no longer write policies covering motor cars hired out by the day to bookmakers, actors, actresses, Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Risks | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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