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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England's noted prelate, familiarly known as "the London Bobbies' Bishop", is making a tour of the leading colleges and universities of the United States. He arrived at Ames, Iowa, on October 1, from Winnipeg, where he terminated a two months' tour of Canada, and will leave the country early in November, when he sails from San Francisco, bound for the Far East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BISHOP OF LONDON IS HARVARD GUEST | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...stage nearer completion. The Government won a victory in its attempt to recover the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves which onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased to the Mammoth Oil Co. (a Harry F. Sinclair institution). Judge William Squire Kenyon- presiding judge of Iowa, in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, reversed the decision of the Wyoming district court (TIME, June 29, 1925); ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which had been taken from Teapot Dome.+ The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Teapot Dome | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...field as soggy as a silo floor the team of the University of Nebraska, popularly known as the Cornhuskers, made ducks of Drake, 21 to 0. Iowa, with a plunging backfield, beat Colorado Teachers' College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Only slightly less ignorant than the peons of Tehuantepec were folk and newspapers that talked about the Equinox in connection with these earthquakes; or with a howling hurricane that last week swept Louisiana, torrential rains that flooded Illinois, Iowa, Missouri; with a tornado in Nebraska and Kansas; with the worst typhoon of years in Japan (100 killed); and other portents of the week. In the first place, it was not yet the Equinox, which comes Sept. 21-25, when the earth reaches a tilt in the heavens such that the plane of its equator passes through the sun, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Portents | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...Montgomery Ariz.-Phoenix Ark.-Little Rock Calif.-Sacramento Col.-Denver Conn.-Hartford Del.-Dover Fla.-Tallahassee Ga.-Atlanta Idaho-Boise Ill.-Springfield Ind.-Indianapolis Iowa-Des Moines Kan.-Topeka Ky.-Frankfort La.-Baton Rouge Me.-Augusta Md.-Annapolis Mass.-Boston Mich.-Lansing Minn.-St. Paul Miss.-Jackson Mo.-Jefferson City Mont.-Helena

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 48 States and their capitals | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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