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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From an Electoral College standpoint, the new distribution, with its ten added votes in California and Michigan, gives normally Republican states an electoral gain while Democrats show a slight loss, reductions in much of the Solid South balancing other increases. The reapportionment also will increase urban versus rural representation, thus possibly aiding the Wet cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...shares of Neighbors Ltd.," said Viscount Ennismore last week, "will be sold at a penny each to wealthy men who wish to show the sincerity of their Socialism, and remove the obstacles of their capital, earned or unearned. Each purchaser of a penny share binds himself to contribute ?100 [$486] to the company's Permanent Fund. The sole business of Neighbors Ltd. will be to administer the Fund in the interest of Social Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Neighbors Ltd. | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Figures taken from an older report than that of the year 1902-1903, which are not included in the 25 year survey, show even more clearly the growth of the Society, which is now in its forty-sixth year of business. The total sales as recorded that year were $170,477, with the dividends paid at a 6 percent rate totaling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Five Year Survey Indicates a Five Fold Growth For Cooperative--Business Has Been Doubled Since 1923 | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Arrived in the U. S. is British Photographer Richard N. Speaight. He will lecture and show an exhibit of his photographs and those of 39 famed European photographers. Photographer Speaight has made pictures of Edward of Wales when he was in a pinafore, of Albert and Elizabeth of Belgium when they were in a barn, of President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...show how various European photographers get their portrait effects, Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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