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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Answering your letter of Oct. 7, I am 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Biggest Raid | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Milk Racket | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

All eight members of the Federal Farm Board settled back securely in their swivel chairs last week as the Senate, after seven hours public haggling, confirmed their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Confirmed & Confronted | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: While Chief's Away | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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