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This week the crusade ended. Field, not Schreiber, went back-to the Kingston's taps. The interdict against Schreiber was lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: For Two Pins | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition of governments established by force. Then President-elect Roosevelt made a final trip to his dentist, found his favorite (fishing rod and was bidden Godspeed at Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal by Mayor Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It's Candy' | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...with the Metropolitan Opera Company, that if she sang there at all it would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumors | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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