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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read that Ramsay MacDonald was born in a Scottish hut. I'm sure TIME's readers who have never been in Scotland will get an entirely wrong conception of this...
...Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...
...social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal and interest by Edith Rockefeller McCormick." The notes are secured by Edith Rockefeller McCormick's holdings in Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey...
...those trailers, M. I. T. and Syracuse, and two of the supposed chief contenders, California and Cornell, were not even given a chance to trail. Instead, their shells sank and the 32 oarsmen were forced to dive into the rough-watered Hudson, to be picked up by Poughkeepsie police launches. And, as darkness annoyed the radio broadcasters, Junior Glendon's unbeaten Columbia crew shot first across the finish line, with Washington second...
Since 1920 Edward Pearson Warner has taught aviation engineering at M. I. T. In 1924 he was made a full professor. Air-literary as well as air-minded, he has writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...