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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Taggart | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Postmaster of Trencsen, a town in the Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Botanist into President | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...passed on favorably by the Athletic Committee at their meeting on March 4, and their recommendation was referred to the Corporation for a final decision. With the announcement of the approval of that body, no further action is necessary except the gaining of the consent to the proposal of Mayor Nichols of Boston. Although the Mayor is absent at present; notice has been received from his office that in all probability there will be no opposition from this source...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM GRANTED TO DARTMOUTH IN STANFORD GAME | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell, in a letter to Mayor Quinn, which has not previously been announced, requested that changes favorable to the University's plan be made. In part, he said that "The public streets which we should like to have discontinued. ...are neither many nor important to the city. They are as follows: Colonial Way (formerly called Otter Street); South Street between Holyoke and Dunster Streets...... changes in the line of the southern end of Holyoke Street, as previously indicated to you." The changes referred to will consist of widening and straightening the passage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEEKING TO ALTER STREETS | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...learned yesterday that Mayor Quinn has submitted these suggestions to the City Council; and a definite date has been set for the hearing, which is to take place on March 19. It is not expected that the University will encounter any opposition to its petitions, for it now owns all the property abutting on the streets affected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEEKING TO ALTER STREETS | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

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