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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This testimony greatly distressed Senator Watson, then an active presidential candidate. He denied the Rogers statement but not, according to his friends, emphatically, convincingly enough. Thereafter, according to the charges in the Rogers damage suit, Candidate Watson, Republican National Committeeman M. Burt Thurman and six other Indiana politicians (all defendants in this case) conspired to compel Plaintiff Rogers to reverse his testimony given the Senate committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Watson's Week | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Despite the rage of Rio, the choice of demure Lisl Goldarbeiter was enthusiastically greeted elsewhere. At the sight of the slender Viennese, trembling with emotion in her green silk bathing suit, even veteran press correspondents were affected. The mother of another contestant rhapsodized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Still demure after the contest, Miss Lisl Goldarbeiter "Universe" blushed when offered a $15,000 theatrical contract which entailed appearing in a tight bathing suit four times daily. "Papa must decide," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Wine of Honor. It was hinted by Paris newspapers that M. Reboux had been discharged as political contributor of radical Paris Soir. In their combined majesty and awfulness the Syndicat du commerce des vins de Champagne and the Syndicat général des vignerons de la Champagne brought suit against the brash gastronome. Last fortnight the case was called before the civil tribunal of the Department of the Seine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wine of Honor | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Later Texas Co. developed the Holmes-Manley process, Standard of New Jersey the tube-and-tank process, and Gasoline Products Corp. the Cross process. Other processes followed and the petroleum industry found itself in the midst of patent infringement litigation featured 'by a Texas v. Standard of Indiana suit. Therefore Standard of Indiana, Standard of New Jersey, Texas Co. and Gas Products formed a pool, commonly known as the Patent Club. In order to use any of the four basic cracking processes, independents had to get licenses from and pay royalties to the pool members. The U. S. government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cracking Pool | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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