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Astronomers suspect that all the 92 known elements are present to some extent in the sun. Up to last week they had identified 58. Last week, phosphorus was quietly plucked out of the limbo of uncertainty to take its place as the 59th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Phosphorus & Spots | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...must be a Scotch-Presbyterian-Republican who could rise to power and a $20,000-a-year job in a school system ridden by Irish- Catholic-Democratic politics. Nobody is fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north of City Hall. Brought to New York at the age of four, Harold George Campbell climbed the public school ladder rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campbell for O'Shea | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

When? If? Such preliminary facts and the final reports to follow, go to the 58th & 59th floors of Manhattan's Chrysler Building into which Pan American moved its offices last week. There they are coordinated by famed Explorer Vilbrmir Stefansson, Pan American consultant, who advocated commercial arctic flying ten years ago. The coordinated data are analyzed by Chief Engineer Priester who knows about ships, men and operations; by Communications Engineer Leuteritz who knows about radio and navigation. Finally it goes to a spacious, buff-papered office on the 58th floor from which French doors open upon a balcony overlooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Merchant Aerial | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Alongside the blue ribbon of Pabst was flaunted the white ribbon of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in beery Milwaukee last week. For the 59th time, the W. C. T. U. was holding its annual convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: W. C. T. U.'s 59th | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...policy fresh and vigorous enough to win back millions of lost Labor votes, adjourned singing "The Red Flag." Spit in the Cream! Blackpool is a North British seaside resort that is anything but Red. Rumbling into Blackpool last week came the first-class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion the Party (which holds 471 seats out of the 615 in the House of Commons) drafted a policy which it hopes to put through before the un-national character of the so-called National Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conventions & Contrasts | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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