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...hammering of the past months, not even the bitterest opponent has belittled the Hoover mind. The intellectual stature of him is too patent. . . . It is wide thinking, it is fast, it is intuitive, it is as accurate as a die, it is flexible, it is creative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Open Mind | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Cotton Dogs. Bitterest last week were the plaints of Lancashire cotton weavers. Five thousand had already struck against the employers' new system of assigning one weaver to tend eight looms instead of four, while raising the basic wage from $9.36 weekly to only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pocket Wildcat; Mother Hubbard | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Passfield Declaration. In the declaration which even his bitterest Jewish critics called "historic" last week Lord Passfield wrote in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jewry Stands Aghast! | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...committee in New York, handed this message, asked him to define in a sentence what the civil war had been all about. "Generally speaking," he replied, "the revolution was the result of political favoritism and domination of the country by the coffee interests in the state of Sao Paulo," bitterest rival of Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Where is the President? | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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