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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LOUISE N. KERROTT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, 69, founder of the Anti-Noise Society of America, onetime President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, originator of "Safe & Sane" Independence Days; at Deal, N. J. Annoyed by toots of Hudson River tugs, she sound-proofed her home on Riverside Drive, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Paul Robeson is distinctly a Northern Negro. The youngest son of a school-teaching mother and a Methodist minister who had worked his way through Lincoln University, he was educated first in the public schools of Princeton, N. J. His school record won him a scholarship at nearby Rutgers College (New Brunswick, N. J.). At Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with it to the U. S. Certainly next year he will take a concert tour as far west at California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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