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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years-ever since its formation-and am a director and member of the Executive Committee of the United Gas Improvement Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Danny Daniels had lined up his four comrades, executed them one by one, then committed suicide. Most of the last hostage guards escaped unhurt. Total casualties: 5 dead convicts, 7 dead guards, 3 badly wounded guards, 7 other wounded including Warden Crawford whose head was grazed by a slug. Eight inquiries were started into the origin of the revolt. In 1924 the National Association for Penal Information pronounced the Canon City Penitentiary "the worst in the country" for brutality and repression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Danny Daniels' Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Expensive Elephants | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...tterdammerung is a turgid opera by Richard Wagner, the composer to whose music most Nordics are married and buried ("Wedding March,'' ''Death March" from Lohengrin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Statesman's Death | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...those who desire to learn more specifically the grounds of this resentment, there is opportunity tonight to hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER STEP | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

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