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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paragraph quoted in TIME, Jan. 14 issue, from a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from me John C. Box of Texas, of whom I've never heard, is fairly representative of the expressions of those who continue to use their efforts and influence to ''break up" the Democratic part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

TIME (Jan. 21), in telling about Circusman John Ringling's purchase of the tub in which Jean Paul Marat was assas sinated by Charlotte Corday, mentioned Tubmen Diogenes and Earl Carroll, omitted Archimedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over accounts in the ledger of John Jones, the proprietor, show that the patronage included statesmen like Daniel Webster, professional men like Harrison Gray Otis, and military men like General William H. Sumner, but the characteristic features of the house centered around shipping and merchants ship owners, as did the activities of all New England. The leading merchants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Antiquated Ledger Shows Once Prominent Position of Boston Exchange Coffee House---Rendezvous of Leaders | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

Prominent among the first string players who will be on hand today are John Tudor '29, and F. R. G. Giddens '30, Wingmen, E. T. Putnam '30 and G. C. Holbrook '30, centers, and A. S. Bigelow '29, H. W Bigelow '29, and S. L. Batchelder '31, who have shared the defense duties regularly this season. O. P. Jackson '29, H. H. Newell '29, and W. L. Elkins '29, who have divided the goal guarding honors so far this season are expected to renew their rivalry for the post of cageman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY PRACTICE TO RECOMMENCE TODAY | 1/30/1929 | See Source »

...management of Durant Motors (TIME, Jan. 21), he chose a group of new executives, heavily interested in Durant stock, to succeed him, and last week turned over the management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice president in charge of Dodge sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Durant Heirs | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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