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...April 9 and 10, the Harvard racquetmen will play in the North and South tournament at Pinehurst, N. G. The Norfolk Country Club, the Chevy Chase Country Club, and the Navy will furnish the opposition for the remainder of the trip. The first home match will be played against Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM TAKES TOUR DURING SPRING VACATION | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

Lake Coal. To the annoyance of coal operators in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Commission refused to let freight rates be lowered 20 cents per ton by railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Hocking Valley, Virginian) which carry coal from that section to the Great Lakes, for transshipment to the Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Decisions | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...prayer book schism had suddenly yawned into a wide abyss. On which side stood the Sovereign? If on both, could he long maintain so wide a straddle? Leaders on both sides, harassed His Majesty, last week, by despatching hundreds of partisan appeals to the royal winter residence, Sandringham House, Norfolk. What to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovereign's Dilemma | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Model A | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Esme is a scion of the Catholic branch of that excessively ancient family, founded by one William Howard, a Norfolk lawyer, in the 13th Century, which is now headed by Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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