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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...black-hulled Corsair. Last week the Corsair beat United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident is destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...also rumored last week that General Motors would take a 15 million dollar interest in Aviation Corp., 200 million dollar aircraft holding company, which would then take over Delco-Remy (General Motors subsidiary) and Bendix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: I Do it Myself | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

There are, according to the Hoover Economic Survey (see p. 75) some 17 million U. S. citizens engaged in playing the Stock Market. Most of these investors are new, small, ignorant. They speculate to double their capital rather than invest to get a steady increase. They are motivated by faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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