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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerking for the Western Electric Co. at $10 weekly. It is said that he had intended to send the letter of application which got him the job to the General Electric Co., confused the two Electrics, thus accidentally landed with the Western. His work attracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, who made him chief statistician. By 1915 he was Vice President; in 1917, as head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase of supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces in France; in 1918 he returned to the A. T. & T.; in 1925 was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: England's Steel, Morgan's Steel | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Black Sadie is a common cornfield nigger raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: But Both Black | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Almira G. Rockefeller, only daughter of the late William G. Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, recent debutante, of Manhattan & Greenwich, Conn.; to M. Roy Jackson, able huntsman, widower, father of two married daughters, of Rye, N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

President of the National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford & of three other insurance companies; of heart disease; in Hartford. To attend the funeral Mr. Smith's mother, 79, made a seven-hour airplane flight from Raleigh, N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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