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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Court Tennis Doubles Championship?Won by Jay Gould, Manhattan, and William C. Wright, Philadelphia, in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...with cheap Royal Dutch kerosene. Well, the old Standard was broken up now ? its pieces, in fact, were all around him: Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Standard Oil of California. Present also were Harry F. Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Dine is the murder-case pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright, art critic and onetime editor of Smart Set (TIME, Sept. 10, PEOPLE.) The Canary Murder Case is, far and away, his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...that boron, which volcanoes heave forth, that titanium, which makes war smoke screens, that vanadium, which hardens steel−that such metals of horrendous connotation were also in solution was a revelation made to U.S. householders only last week, from Cornell University. Drs. Jacob Papish and Norman C. Wright made the discoveries there with a spectroscope. The metallic contents are "small but definite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metallic Milk | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Wright Aero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crash | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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