Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Oct. 28th, p. 48, you note the merger of several Atlanta banks into the First National, and the merger in Worcester of three Massachusetts banks, but I believe you have thus far failed to note the recent merger of a number of North Carolina banks, a dozen or more, into the North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. with headquarters in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, High Point, Salisbury, Rocky Mount, Burlington. Former Governor Angus MacLean of North Carolina, a prime mover in the merger, is chairman of the board...
...great animal lover I eagerly consume every article I see about them, and wish to protest the printing of such episodes as the one appearing in TIME of Oct. 28, under the heading of "Cat Wash" as unworthy of your magazine's standing...
...latest quirk in the problem cropped up last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
Smith Wildman Brookhart, U. S. Senator from Iowa, last week fulfilled a promise to himself and colleagues. He arose in the Senate and told all he had to tell about the "booze-party" at the Willard Hotel in Washington which he and other Senators attended three years ago (TIME, Oct...
...Sing Sing are New York's Auburn and Dannemora, with their ancient cell blocks, cramped, fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...