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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North German Lloyd: One hundred seventy-five thousand common stock shares at $69 per share ($12,075,000); to pay for six cargo liners, purchase of other shipping companies; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lee Higginson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Loans | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...statue of Andrew Jackson in the capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn., was similarly treated. The Mississippi Legislature took under advisement a resolution to have the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson removed from "Republican soil" (Virginia) to "Democratic soil" (Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Ledbetter Lee, mercurial informator, pronounces Wells "delightful, and his good-natured banter and satire a marvel of fine conversation." Versatile extremes, such as Kipps and The Time Machine, Floor Games for Children and The Undying Fire, mark his tremendous output of some fifty volumes aside from articles and pamphlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Lunatic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held Jr. and whose right stocking is deployed in wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Commonweal. Profits made by the Calvert Associates from the sale of their books, etc., are applied to the promotion of religious liberty, more specifically to the dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there is Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, smart Catholic chaplain of New Haven, Conn.** The name of the organization is in loving memory of George Calvert, founder of Maryland Free State. Better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After All is Said | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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