Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody gave up a seat...
...editors, one was stocky Ray Long, whose April Cosmopolitan appeared early in March galvanized by a Coolidge-penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...
Many a U. S. citizen, little acquainted with the individuals who head U. S. corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan's chief, must remember that it is FREDERICK ECKER who heads what President Hoover once termed "the greatest single institution devoted to public welfare." The Metropolitan has in force some $16,000,000,000 of insurance from some 40,000,000 policies; its income is approximately...
...Mitchell's mind was occupied with an important matter - the merger of National City with Farmers' Loan and Trust. Announced early this week, the amalgamation created a banking institution with total resources of $2,100,000,000. Inasmuch as the Guaranty Trust-Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) had produced a bank with resources of $1,983,597,000, the National City-Farmers' Loan combination could match Guaranty-Commerce dollar for dollar with some $117,000,000 to spare. Even before acquiring Farmers' Loan, the National City had resources of almost...
...erroneously stated (TIME, March 18), art editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...