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Came last week an elderly Berlin shoemaker commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg Arches | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Fogg Museum, there is now on display a collection so sketches made by H. B. Hoover, M. Arch. 1926. Hoover was awarded both a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship and made these sketches during his journeys aboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Fogg Exhibit | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...Curry leadership pointed positively to Mayor Walker's renomination. At the same time it indicated a mayoral opening for some Manhattan Republican of real stature. The potent, arch-Democrat New York World, carefully styling itself "the independent press," promised to abandon Tammany unless the Republicans, too, played oldtime, small-apple politics. Nationally, the return of Tammany to type augured the return of the South to dominance in the Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Same Old Tammany | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

There is now on exhibition in the Old Fogg Museum a collection of very interesting sketches made by Henry B. Hoover, M. Arch. 1926. Mr. Hoover was awarded both a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship after graduation from the School of Architecture at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoover Sketches | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

Anyone who has ever read an editorial by Signor Mario Carli, personal friend of Signor Benito Mussolini and editor of the arch-Fascist daily L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"), will recognize his characteristic style in the following comment on a football game played last week in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Miserable Austria! | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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