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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
...Aug. 3, 1918 Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from exposure. Machine guns would work only from heated blockhouses. A bare hand touching metal was seared as by fire. Snow and continual darkness fought for the enemy. On March 30 occurred the "mutiny" of Company I of the 339th Infantry. So great was the demoralization of all troops that withdrawal...
...from them to the U. S. Senate Finance Committee. Master diamond cutter is Mr. Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond tariff (TIME, Aug. 26). Ably he pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed to the accidental under-stocking that has allowed Manhattan jewelers to weather the storm. Confidently he predicted renewed buying by stock-shy investors of safe, eternally...
...late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
Things are happening in Crowell Publishing Co. Last summer the Mentor was overhauled and spruced up (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month the American Magazine bade goodbye to Editor Merle Crowell (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will...