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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banker Found | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Chairman will be Frank Warrenner Blair, Union Trust president, onetime drugstore clerk. President will be Robert Owen Lord, head of Guardian Detroit Group. Modest, he gave credit for Guardian Detroit Group's success to his subordinates, described them as "very fine young men who are not afraid of hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Birthday. Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Metallic Gas. "It may be possible to run the automobile of the future on a gas of great power and volume produced by a handful of a peculiar metal and a small tank of peculiar gas." dreamily predicted Chicago's Robert G. Guthrie, nominated to succeed Cleveland's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metal Congress | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Langmuir's Comments. Retiring society president, General Electric's Dr. Irving Langmuir called this "the greatest chemical achievement of 1929." An American, Dennison, had predicted its accomplishment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemical Meeting | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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