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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Well, now that General Jake Wolters has, as he states, "Cleaned up Borger" (TIME, Nov. 4) it might be pertinent to ask that being so experienced he try his hand on his own home town, Houston, with a public record of more automobile accidents than any town in the United

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

To China. To read, write and speak Chinese is an asset invaluable to any U. S. diplomat in the Orient. Such a linguist is Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (salary: $9,000). Last week President Hoover sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Johnson, Page, Phillips | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

To London. Up and down the worn State Department steps, back and forth through its high drafty corridors has of late been seen, in leisurely movement, a tall robust man with a British faultlessness of attire. With difficulty newsmen identified him as Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Johnson, Page, Phillips | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

For more than an hour Col. Williaml L. Keller, Chief Surgeon of the Walter Reed Hospital, close friend of the sick man, probed Secretary Good's abdomen. The appendix was gangrenous, perforated, and out of place, dangerously low. Doctors watching the operation shook their heads gravely.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Passing of Good | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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