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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to declare forfeited to the U. S. Government claims to land grants asserted by the Northern Pacific R. R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark, all of the W. O. N. P. R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It Isn't Done | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Amherst College Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner LL.D. Charles Falconer Stearns, judge (Supreme Court of R. I.) LL.D. Ralph Earle, college president (Worcester Polytechnic) LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

LITTLE CAESAR?W. R. Burnett?Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...American Exchange Securities Corp., investment affiliate of Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. Obviously the bankers were acting as agents, but for whom they would not state. After many questions, denials and guesses, however, it was stated, unofficially but definitely, that the purchaser was not Baltimore & Ohio but Pennsylvania R. R. Whether the Pennsylvania would keep Canton for itself or sell it to the friendly Wabash road was not announced.* It appeared evident, however, that the Pennsylvania, long opposed to Baltimore & Ohio expansion, had made a successful foray into the heart of the hostile camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Penn Stroke | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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