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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister; .at Berlin; of thrombosis (see...
...director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15...
Nearby, Prognosticator Babson (see p. 52) conducts a similar school for rising young men (Babson Institute), who study at businesslike desks, speak their examinations into whirring dictaphones, con Babson graphs, charts, advice sheets. The Babsons may be the unconscious go-betweens in many a happy timocratic union...
...Tuskeegee Institute for Negroes), the University of Alabama football squads were practicing last week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore...
...business of ghostwriting, thoroughly discredited, is believed to be on the decline. But the Oelrichs incident (see above) gave wise Heywood Broun, columnist for the 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers, a chance to review some ghostly history...