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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with present-day Scribner's, which was founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fewer Centuries | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...they must keep the support of 45 Liberals to retain a majority in the House of Commons. Should the Conservatives be able to daub Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald again with the red brush, his Liberal support would melt away, and his present (second) Cabinet would fall as disastrously as did his first (TIME, Nov. TO, 1924). when Conservatives cried "Red!" and waved the notorious Zinoviev letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Giants Shake | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

This idea published, Aeronautics waited for public comment. Last week it announced honestly: "So far nothing has materialized except a notable expression of sympathy from a large share of the daily press, and a few of the usual large gestures from those who profess to believe that the present hodgepodge is the noblest possibility of our great democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: National Air Academy | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly be demolished, one U. S. electric light out of every ten would go dark. The investor in Shenandoah is virtually turning his money over to Sidney Weinburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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