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Word: reasoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...flight, 4,000 more shares after the flight. To protect the values of their stock they stipulated that Promoter Montgomery sell no Airvia stock publicly for two years. While they were in Europe, Promoter Montgomery began to reave out stock at $8 to $12 a share. For that reason, Messrs. Williams and Yancey say, they resigned from Airvia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Stock Scandal | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Recurring also was the reason advanced that the consolidation would greatly enhance the facilities of Gold Dust Corp., which has been engaged in distributing trademarked food products, soap, washing and scouring powders, shoe polishes, other articles. Natural was the assumption that United Cigar Stores, Whelan Drug Stores, the other Tobacco Products Corp. outlets, which altogether number some 92,000 stores reaching from coast to coast, would (become potent retail points for Gold Dust products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Again, Gold Dust | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...reason for the fame of Paris is that great building projects have for centuries appealed to the imagination of French rulers. Nowadays, however, the world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Palais de France | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...that reason they parted. She went to the nothingness of forgotten characters, while Mayreder went on to his second and third loves. His second love was a virgin who consoled him and was about to introduce him to her father when Stasha, the third love, recently escaped from an insane asylum, snatched him up. The story ends when Mayreder, refusing to murder Dr. Karkos after Stasha specially requests him to do so, finds Stasha herself murdered by the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doleful | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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