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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wagon-Cooks | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...lectures on City Planning and Landscape Architecture will be given by W. H. Manning, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Sir Lawrence Weaver, Knight Commander of the British Empire, respectively, it was announced last night by the School of Landscape Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

...thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mason, Elk, Knight | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas J. O'Connor, President of Purity Baking Co., Chicago; Benjamin Ernstein, President of Barnard Phillips & Co., Bankers, New York; C. K. Corbin, Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts, graphs, statistics, become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered in 1924, to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strenuous | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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