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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As it must to all men, Death came last week to Victor Louis Berger, famed Milwaukee Socialist. Twenty-two days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burgher Berger | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burgher Berger | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Williams. It has been remarked that Harrison Williams has more utility knowledge in his little finger than any other utility man has in his entire anatomy. Exaggerated is this statement, yet not unfounded. Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp. is a holding company which owns more than 810,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Pilot Parker W. ("Shorty") Cramer, 33, was the man who initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Untin' Bowler | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

*U. S. entries: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall of Buffalo, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. Foreign entries: De Havilland Co., Handley-Page Ltd., Vickers Ltd., Gloster Aircraft Co. and Cierva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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