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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Wright Stewart, onetime (1918-29) chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana from which he resigned after a tussle with the Rockefeller family, was not re-elected a director of National City Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Only motors are ambulances, a few official cars for government use. Last week one Willoughby Wright, Bermudian railway employe, was fined severely for driving a tractor in Southampton Parish, one of Bermuda's nine legislative districts, had his tractor confiscated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan having pledged the faith of its operators to enforce the Prohibition laws to the best of their abilities, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock abandoned padlock proceedings which had been begun after a raid last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1931 | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Protection of Industrial Property: 2) a Pan-American pact for protection of trademarks and commerce. ¶ Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. ¶ Adjourned until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Clock | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Professor Wright gives a clear lecture full of good material. However, he cannot lighten it by anecdotes or any other touches which are not strictly concerned with the subject matter; for in one half a year he has to cover all American Constitutional History from the calling of the Constitutional Convention to the present time. The classes are relieved now and then by discussions of cases of the U. S. Supreme Court which are less boring if less enlightening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confidential Guide to Courses | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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