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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Board of Tax Appeals (Time, July 28) has begun to function. It decided its first case and gave out its findings. The report, from the early date of its appearance, and from its brevity (only seven typewritten pages) seems to indicate that the Board is functioning in a direct and businesslike...
...wonder if he is not too nervous, too eager a mentality ever to be contented to confine his abilities to the writing of novels and plays. He is one of those persons whose nervous energy drives them to constant work. There is something about a frequent copy date for a writer of this type that is as necessary as an opiate. I am convinced that journalism is an essential stimulus for this type of person...
...Stewart is also the oldest living graduate of Columbia University (Class of 1840). After an initial experience as a railroad clerk, a clerk in the Board of Education, and an insurance actuary, he organized the U. S. Trust Co. in 1853. From that date to 1902, he served as its President, except for a two-year period during the Civil War, when he was called by Abraham Lincoln to act as Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. Since 1902, Mr. Stewart has acted as Chairman of the Board of the bank which, a half-century before, he had organized...
...been seen. The next week the loading figure leaped upward to 910,415, and, after advancing steadily each successive week, established a new high record for 1924 of 945,931 cars in the week ending Aug. 2-an increase of 19,872 cars over the previous week. To date, loadings of revenue freight have totaled 27,658,938 cars-not far behind the sensational figure of 28,979,703 during the corresponding period...
...Chief of Air Service has left the date of departure in the hands of the aviators themselves. They will start "when practicable." Weatherbound so far, they are marooned in a hotel at Reykjavik, Iceland, studying their maps, receiving a large mail from admirers in the U. S., and not at all worried. They feel sure they will get through and time is no object. In the meantime, the Navy has been coöperating in wonderful fashion. The supply ship Gertrude Rask finally broke through the ice to Angmagsalik, on the south coast of Greenland, but found the clear space...