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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, last week, the People's Legislative Service of equivocal, critical Wisconsin, whose 13 electoral votes may point the way for neighboring States of the un- settled Northwest. Earlier, this service had decried Nominees Smith and Hoover in one breath as "unprogressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Charles Augustus Stone, head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Curtis | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Webb plan is to throw the election into the House of Representatives. Nominee Webb thinks that can be done by winning the Northwest. "Smith is educating the farmer to vote for us. I'll take five votes from Smith to one from Hoover," he said last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINOR PARTIES: Mr. Webb | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Herbert Bayard Swope, of the Democratic New York World, bought an estate worth $450,000 on Long Island. Its name is "Keewaydin." This means, the Republican and opposition New York Herald-Tribune hastened to point out, "Northwest Wind, or, in some dialects, Very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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