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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madame Chiang, as Mei-ling Soong, graduated from Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., in 1917, as you state in your issue of Jan. 25. She came to Macon, Ga., however, as a little girl of 10 with her sisters. (Madame H. H. Kung, Soong Eling, graduated at Wesleyan in 1909; Madame Sun Yatsen, Soong Ching-ling...
...long-suffering public hopes that Admiral Byrd WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! He need never, on any occasion, be mistaken for a bellhop, a street car conductor or train caller [TIME, Jan. 25]. He can avoid such embarrassing moments by merely following the precedent set for him by those men whose stripes or stars or whatnots are the result of long and arduous service: No officer on the retired list wears a uniform, any time, any where. His uniform automatically retires with his active status. No officer on the active list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never...
Under People in TIME, Jan. 25, you have an item about Admiral Byrd, which needs a slight correction. It is true he did arrive ahead of schedule, and some of the committee who were to meet him came after he did, but we knew him at once. However, while we were talking with him, a Salvation Army lass came up with a ticket in her hand and wanted some information about trains. Although we joked about it, we all were impressed by his courteous and kindly treatment of the lady. How different some of the travelers, that stop off from...
...Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific and All Points West, 5%, Jan. 1, 2000. Something to leave to posterity. Cost $35, sold...
...Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Senator Wheeler (delightedly confronted Richard Whitney, Depression president of the Stock Exchange, with a bigger and better memorandum by Mr. Hoxsey, written in 1926, and with Mr. Hoxsey himself...