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More reliable is the statement that the path of peace in the thirties will be rough going. Major Bratt's challenging book, That Next War?, is a distressing picture of what may be the future. Mussolini with his foot in the boot of Italy bids fair to kick slumbering Mars into action. Germany edges towards the Polish corridor while La Belle France arms herself to the teeth and Hungary eyes her lost provinces in Roumania. If one adds to this score the obvious red flag flying in Moscow the promises of 1918 seem truly dyed in no uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE LITTLE LETTERS | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

...much a goal after touchdown can mean was clearly understood by Wisconsin rooters who watched their dependable Rebholtz, conference leader in kicking goals after touchdown, swing his boot. His kick went wide and Purdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...time his family is grown up he owns or controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes to her at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Upper New York | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...United Drug Co. With the United Drug purchase it acquired 664 Liggett drugstores in the U. S., 38 in Canada and contracts to supply 10,000 Rexall drugstores in the U. S. Besides those U. S. establishments, the United Drug purchase gave Drug, Inc. control of the 860 Boot's Drug Stores in Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Business | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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