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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jack L. Dempsey,* oldtime turf writer, chart maker for Daily Racing Form; at Dallas; of heart failure. The day he died he picked five out of six winners at Arlington Downs track (between Dallas & Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled Amanullah, and Mohammed Osman, one-time governor of Kandahar, whose great Afghan influence once won him the title of "King-maker." All three, held as hostages, had been murdered as the armies of Nadir approached Kabul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Cannons after Prayer | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Divorced. Mrs. Lois Knowlston Dodge Manning, onetime wife of Horace E. Dodge Jr., motor maker; from Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Manning. Grounds: extreme cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Following the precedent of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick who borrowed $11,000,000 by issuing notes against stocks held in trust (TIME, July 1), last week Mrs. Matilda R. Wilson, widow of Motor-maker John F. Dodge, offered through her bankers $3,000,000 worth of certificates at 6% interest in a collateral trust of municipal bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wilson Municipals | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...began organizing last winter under "a unified plan . . . in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover" (TIME, March 11), elected officers last week and chose a name. Henceforth they will be known as the Co-operative Committee for Prohibition Enforcement. Their chairman is a Kentucky varnish-maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Co-Optimists | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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