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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* The six banks and their respective contributions to the $500,000 credit were: Chemical National Bank (on order of the First National of Denver), First National (on order of Denver National) each $100,000; Guaranty Trust Co., Harriman Trust Co., National City Bank (on order?respectively?of U. S. National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waggoner's Gesture | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

The solar variations recorded at Mr. Hoover's station have been most valuable in aiding Dr. Abbot to recognize a remarkable periodicity of 25.66 months in the heat given off by the sun. If further observations show this periodicity to be real, meteorologists may be able "to fore- cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Hoover | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Notable among the singers at the Banff Festival was Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, composer, concert-singer of Scottish music, famed for her rediscovery of Hebridean folk songs. She comes from a family known in the lowlands as the "Singing Kennedys" and has spent many years in the Hebrides Islands, off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Banff Festival | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

At Ogdensburg, N. Y., Mrs. Henry Bushey, 90, grandmother of 20, great-grandmother of "about 100," hustled to the bank of the Oswegatchie River, stumbled off into 15 ft. of water, struggled ashore dragging Louis Seigal, 63. Said she: "I'm not as strong as I used to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

In Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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