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...Born to war-ruined parents at Marietta, Ga. in 1863, William Gibbs McAdoo sold papers as a boy, migrated with his family to Knoxville, entered the University of Tennessee. Thirty-six years later, as Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, he borrowed more money at a single time through Government loans than had any other U. S. official in history. As head of the War Risk Insurance Bureau he issued more life insurance than all other private companies put together. As Director General of Railroads he controlled more miles of track than any other man ever has. He married President Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: McAdoodling | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Died. William Webster Mills, 79, board secretary & treasurer of Marietta (Ohio) College, uncle of Charles Gates Dawes; in Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Pitt 7 Michigan 20 Illinois 0 Fordham 6 N. Y. U. 0 Navy 14 Princeton 6 Springfield 33 B. U. 7 Boston College 20 Dayton 7 William and Mary 26 Bridgewater 0 Colgate 27 Penn State 6 California 10 Washington 6 U. S. C. 7 Stanford 0 Otterbein 2 Marietta...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: HUEY DANCES AT STATLER, THEN PREDICTS HARVARD WIN | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

Nina, police dog of Marietta, Pa., who led her master to the barn where he found Bess, a prize cow, strangling to death with her head caught in a hay rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Spratt Award | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Constance, Ky. the calliope of the showboat Bryant of Marietta soughed squealingly "Beautiful Ohio" and then the Betsy Ann's tune, "Dixie." The Tom Greene had an edge, but the boats were still so close together that the resting shifts of black stokers jibed at each other across the dividing strip of foamy yellow-brown water. Coming into Cincinnati, special policemen sweated to keep order in the dense auto lines of spectators along the river side streets. Here the Tom Greene began to pull away, was a half-mile ahead just past the city and finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Puffing Race | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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