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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Mr. Planalp (TIME, Aug. 16) has started a roster of "Names-in-a-million," I beg to submit my own surname, formerly of no little distinction in the New York publishing circles (New York Staats- Zeitung). For purity of origin and significance of meaning, I think it is a name that will favorably compare with any you may find, for your roster of reversible names...
...Ahmedabad, India, pupils of the National College noted on their faculty roster a name new to the roster, old in fame-Mahatma† Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history from this great leader who had well-nigh secured Indian independence in 1920 by his famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat...
...bills in Belgium 20%. The King was informed by many an anxious boniface that tourists will not flock to Belgium if the present inducements of free visas and low taxes are curtailed. "World Crime Wave." The First International Conference on Penal Law assembled at Brussels last week with a roster of delegates from 40 nations, including a representative of the U. S. National Crime Commission (TIME, May 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). M. Carton De Wiart, perhaps most famed of living Belgian jurists, presided over the Conference, deplored statements by several delegates that "a World Crime Wave is now rising...
Another preacher's name went on the roster of those who have spurned Manhattan pastorates for the greater contentment of provincial charges. The present instance is that of Rev. Robert R. Wicks who has refused to succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbysterian Church. Pastor Wicks remains; at Holyoke, Mass., industrial boiling potlet...
...shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap Man W. C. Procter, besides many another bigwig. To this array was added the name of John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining...