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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Everett Sanders, former Secretary to the President, went to Chicago to become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Price | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian Imbroglio | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Calkins is president of Calkins & Hoiden Inc., prominent Manhattan agency, books on advertising include Louder Please (Atlantic Monthly Press, $2.50), The Business of Advertising (D. Appleton & Co., $2.00), Business, the Civilizer (Little, Brown, & Co., $3.00), and The Advertising Man (Scnbner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bad Names | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Married. Gordon C. Thorne, 36, thrice-married son of the late W. C. Thorne, (early partner of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., Chicago mail order house); and a Mrs. Molin Bolin, 25, registered nurse, of Hammond, Ind.; in Crown Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh's Jobs | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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