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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the will of P. W. Clement, ex-governor of Vermont, a trust fund of $10,000 has been established the income from which is to be used annually for a prize for the best thesis in support of the principles of the constitution and the first ten amendments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,000 GIVEN FOR PRIZE ESSAYS ON CONSTITUTION | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...strange thing, this impulse to trust to someone else's knowledge of a subject rather than to one's own. The room-mate, who took the course two years ago, is to be trusted rather than one's own notebook, the professional tutors, who have probably never taken the course at all are to be trusted most of all. The most objectionable thing about the tutoring schools is that they destroy confidence in a man's ability to prepare for an examination by himself; it is doubtful, as some authorities may think, that they enable even their most ardent devotees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MERRY WIDOW | 1/26/1927 | See Source »

Died. Ernest Alfred Hamill, 75, Chairman of Board, Illinois Merchants' Trust Co.; in Chicago, of influenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

What if a few details in the lead were manifestly not so, even after the revelation? That, for instance, she, now 15, has not yet "in- herited" the estate, which is to be held by her mother in trust until Doris is 35? Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir? The serious thing was that the main lead, keeping within the law, held interest through three paragraphs only by a deliberate misstatement. Taxes paid to a county or state are not earmarked for any particular disbursement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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