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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What were the Good Queen's thoughts? She said nothing, quietly motored home. Soon cables told that Edward of Wales had shaken off the malaria in record time, was again, last weekend, hot after bigger beasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: May Queen | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...year ago United Founders was organ-ized to acquire a large interest in American Founders, and to make certain investments on a bigger scale than a pure investment trust could do. Most of these have been in the public utility field. Working with Harris, Forbes & Co., United Founders has big holdings in U. S. Electric Power, Hydroelectric Securities, United National Corp. and Public Utility Holding Corp. of America, all of which give it a strategic position in the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phenomenon | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

While various of his war lords were consorting in intrigue against him last week (see above) Prudent President Chiang Kai-shek despatched an order to U. S. agents in Shanghai for a second armored motor car. Bigger, more potent than the armored Packard sedan he has used for a year and a half (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) President Chiang's new vehicle will be the most expensive car ($47,000) ever to enter China, has been planned especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prudent Chiang | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strange Passage | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...after the success of The Dybbuk, they closed their theatre, announced that they "must pause and consider further developments." They told some that the institutional notion of a theatre (workshops for scenery and costumes had been organized, also a training school for young players) was intruding upon the bigger, finer ideas with which they had begun. Thus vaguely, with idealistic intonation, the sisters have always revealed themselves. Alice, now married to British Artist Herbert Crowley, lives, in Paris. But Irene has carried on in the same lofty spirit. As "the Lewisohn Sisters" she inaugurated the production of "symphonic music with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anniversary | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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