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Word: mr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Scorn for Stimson | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox Theatres stock to his patrons (TIME, Oct. 21) before the stockmarket crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piggott | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Married. Mary Stinson Pillsbury, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stinson Pillsbury (flour); and Oswald Bates Lord of New York; at Minneapolis; on her parents' 28th wedding anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolhouse Fauna | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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