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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Died. James A. Duff, 73, light opera impresario; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. In the '70s Mr. Duff brought to the U. S. a score of H. M. S. Pinafore for which he paid a few shillings in England, overcame reluctant managers, instigated the Gilbert & Sullivan racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Reporter: Give it to somebody else. I'm busy on this murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New York v. Chicago | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Said William Tatem Tilden, II, writing for a news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Netsters | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Speculators rejoiced, last week, as one more "ring" was made ready for the traders. When the secretary of the National Raw Silk Exchange mounts the rostrum (sharply at 10:30 a. m., Sept. 11) and utters the word "October," a new commodity exchange will be in operation. Promptly, one of the traders will quote a price, approximately $5. He will have offered to buy or sell five bales (665 Ibs.) of October silk at $5 a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gamblers in Silk | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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