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Hoover headquarters lacked specific knowledge of what outstanding German-American individuals or families-such as the Busches, Pabsts, Ehrets, Vogels-favored the Beaver Man. There were several reasons to suppose that 95% was an extravagant figure to quote in this question. President Hans A. Koenig of the Milwaukee Steuben Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Races | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

The Hughes-Telegram column is still experimental. It is extremely diffident in its advice to shoppers, but then no daily automobile editor has ever dared to say anything but equally nice things about each and every automobile that was ever offered for sale. Miss Hughes' advice to storekeepers is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Store News | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Early last week, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition prosecutions, conferred in Manhattan with Maurice Campbell, local Prohibition administrator, to settle the exact details of evidence-collection that would ensure airtight cases against the violators. Then, to prevent "leaks," the raiding squad was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Manhattan Coup | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Strange is the fact that in comparison with the vague and awful charge of "conspiracy to sabotage" the specific charges of sabotage committed are trifling. Major specific charges: turning off a ventilator fan so that several miners suffocated; wrecking turbines by bending the blades; and installing new equipment known to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

President Albert Russel Erskine of the Studebaker (motor cars) Corp. has a thriving $135,878,000 industry at South Bend, Ind. At Buffalo, N. Y., 450 miles away, President Myron E. Forbes of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. also has a not so thriving industry, with assets of $24...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Motor Mergers | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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