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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Washington one day last week journeyed the four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Citizens Report | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Man from Maine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

He entered Republican politics in the Territory, served four years in the Hawaiian Senate, was supervisor of the city and country of Honolulu. As Chairman of the Republican organization on the Islands, he was famed as one of the most liberal cigar-passers in Pacific politics. His face is longish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Paradise | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Aged 54 years, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a man of strong and striking demeanor, Tycoon Dillingham has five homes on Oahu: 1) a copy of a Medici palace with open court; and pool on Diamond Head; 2) A copy of a Japanese home which was brought overseas piece by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Paradise | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Gambler Marlow had been a friend of Gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tammany Test | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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