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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria's birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance...
Famed is England's DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious...
...well known are the Taplins, partly because Frank E. Taplin does not like newsmen and emphatically dislikes such newsmen as roam about accompanied by cameras. Unlike the Van Sweringens, the Taplins are not usually regarded as equals, Frank E. Taplin being quite unmistakably Chief Taplin, with Charles Taplin able lawyer, acting largely as attorney for the Taplin interests...
Syracuse, New York, May 31--Harold S. Ulen, internationally known swimming coach of the University of Syracuse, is expected to resign that post in order to become the first swimming coach of Harvard University, it was learned here today from semi-official but usually trustworthy sources...