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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Service Association is an unofficial, voluntary organization to which most members of the U. S. Foreign Service, from Ambassadors to vice consuls, belong. Formed "to foster esprit de corps and to establish a centre around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the service," it is sanctioned, but not assisted or provided for by the State Department. The Secretary of State is honorary president. Toward the erection of the memorial $1,200 of a necessary $3,000 has already been raised among the membership. When finished it will be placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Patriots' Bones | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...your own and a private organist all to yourself. If you are rich but less exacting, you still may have an organ but only a part-time organist to play on it. If you are of a whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime-effects of the neighborhood Wurlitzer. But most people belong to none of these classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Organists | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...hypothesis upon which the George philosophy was created is that land and the profits from it belong to all living people equally. He advocated the State's ownership of land (exclusive of improvements on it). Rent would be paid in proportion to the land's value, and this rent (or single tax) would be sufficient to abolish all other taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...most beautiful brunette in Hollywood. She had her real wedding dress copied for her role in Bad Girl; like the girl in the picture, she lived in Manhattan until, after being in the Follies, she became a cinemactress. She likes giving dinner parties, driving the three airplanes which belong to her husband, Cowboy-Actor Hoot Gibson. Like James Dunn, who used to be a sales man of portable lunch wagons, played a small part in Sweet Adeline, and has a clause in his contract saying he must weigh less than 157 Ibs., she is likely, on the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

What fate awaits the moppet who goes joyriding across State lines in a car that does not belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Accidents | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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