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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico and onetime Morgan partner, was jarred and jiggled, last week, in the drawing room of the U. S. Embassy by a series of earth tremors which continued for 28 minutes, but did not terminate a conversation which he was carrying on with Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institute. Though the Embassy suffered no shattering damage a large and drafty crack opened in the wall of the Ambassador's bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

LORD OF THE WILD, by Samuel Scoville Jr. (William Morrow & Co., $2.00), contains 13 stories of wild animals in their native haunts; the stories of fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/31/1928 | See Source »

dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Frank B. Willis 40 William E. Borah 28 Alvan T. Fuller 27 Charles E. Hughes 25 George W. Norris 21 Calvin Coolidge 9 J. Thomas Heflin 5 Roscoe Pound 3 Nicholas M. Butler 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 Dwight H. Morrow 1 Will H. Hays 1 Malcolm E. Nichols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEADING CANDIDATES | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., all testified that they had considered the Jacksonville agreement, bitter bone of the whole contention, to be morally as well as legally binding. President Horace F. Baker, of the Pittsburgh Terminal Co., has already testified the same (despite contradiction by his competitor, President Morrow), having established that his company kept the agreement, was not again called to the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Carbuncle | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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