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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justices of Supreme Courts will be given two months in which to decide. All others must hazard a snap judgment.-ED. Dividends Sirs...
...inclosing conditional subscription to the new publication, FORTUNE, with this qualification, however, that owing to extreme pressure of business on the Court, I may not be able to make up my mind within a month after the first issue, whether I will continue to be a subscriber or not. Two months will be sufficient. Please advise...
Primogeniture and hereditary public office have no place in U. S. tradition. This fact, however, did not last week deter the voters of the 7th Minnesota District from electing by a two-to-one majority Paul John Kvale (pronounced "Ka-volley") of Benson to the Congressional seat for six years occupied by his father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will...
...radical. Col. Lindbergh has comfortable, conservative political views, if any. Many another son has followed his father into high office. Only one President's son has become President (John Adams-John Quincy Adams); only one President's grandson has become President (William Henry Harrison-Benjamin Harrison). But two Senators' sons now sit in the Senate: Frederick Hale of Maine whose sire was the late great Eugene Hale (1836-1918) and Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin, the Peter Pannish offspring of sturdy "Battle Bob" (1855-1925). In the House today is found a rare grandfather-father...
...transportation. Though nobody had complained of a 40-year practice, the Commission ordered an investigation into the extra fares required for transportation on some carriers' best trains. Section IV of the Transportation Act specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through passengers extra fares on "limited" trains, made no such charge for way passengers on the same trains, thereby throwing out of kilter the delicately balanced passenger tariffs, violating...