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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embarrassing enough to be a vice president and director of a bank which fails. More embarrassing to be charged with gross negligence in the bank's management and to be sued for $1,850,000 by 7,000 depositors. Still more embarrassing to be a U. S. Senator when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Warren's Woe | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Ford Sued. The Packard Motor Car Co. and the Wire Wheel Corp. of America last week filed suit against the Ford Motor Co., charging that the demountable wire wheel used on the new Ford is an infringement of the Cowles patent which Packard and Wire Wheel control. Fourteen years ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Week | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. The abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (now resident in Belgium as M. Carol Caraiman); by the Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Baby King Mihai of Rumania, and sister of the deposed King George II of Greece; at Bucharest. Temporarily the suit will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Divorced. Harvey Arthur Lee, 35, retired British dealer in antiques; by Nora McMullen Lee, 49, of Litchfield, Conn., onetime wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Bibles may be imported into the U. S. without payment of customs duties. Other books are taxed at the rate of 15%. In 1924 Lincoln MacVeagh, president of the Dial Press, brought one copy of the Apocrypha of the Nonesuch Bible to the U. S. from England and was taxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic v. Protestant | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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