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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So declared Bishop William Fraser McDowell, President of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church last year in describing the selection of the site of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Bishop's House | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

For 33 years Mr. Burke has been associated with the G. O. P. Committee. The post of General Counsel was especially created for him. Throughout the campaign he sat just outside Candidate Hoover's door. President Hoover took him along to the White House where he serves as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Word Wanglers | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burgher Berger | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Up in defense of Southern industrialists rose Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Southern Sayings | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Acting President David Dubinsky declared last week that the bonds would be sold to affiliated unions and to "many wealthy men," that moreover the bonds were not mere promissory notes, but were secured by the union's assets (chiefly real estate), valued at some $10,000,000, besides its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strike Bonds | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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