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...astounded. . . . The Beck threat is even more shortsighted and more inopportune than the application of the railroads for this increase. . . . The audacity of his suggestion that the I. C. C. should saddle additional millions of dollars upon the shippers without any study! . . . Where the railroads assert a loss of $400,000,000 in annual income, agriculture took a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ex Parte 103 (Cont'd) | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat's-Paws | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...organic simplicity which Wright regards as requisite to characteristic modernism. "Simplicity and style both are consequences, never causes," he advises us. That it may be true to its expression of the modern spirit our architecture must abandon its faking of old modes, recognize the new methods, and confidently assert its own materials and potentialities...

Author: By W. Stix, | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOK PAGE | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

...pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life, I will match it against all the Pharisaical composers of that tirade. . . . The papers assert that the chairman of the committee is named 'A. Fox.' This is evidently a mistake. There must have been some confusion in the Republican zoo. It should have been signed by the name of another animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Such a delightful informality is certainly an indication of our changing athletics. One can hardly venture to assert what will take place when seven house crews take to the Charles simultaneously. Perhaps the authorities will find it necessary to provide the shells with ash trays and bottle openers, but at all events one hopes the boats will not degenerate into beer kegs manned by topers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRADLE OF THE DEEP | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

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