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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eloquence was matchless because he meant every word of it. Not for him was the Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills who posted a score of 132 for the 18-hole, one-round tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfermes | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Popular 36-year-old Glenna Collett Vare, who, still playing a superb game-although golf clubs are now secondary to her two children, her bird dogs and her shotguns-was eliminated in the first round of match play by a schoolgirl named Marion Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfermes | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...varsity cross-country team was undefeated, and led both Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular hill-and-dale grind. The swimming team lost only to Brown, Yale and Princeton. The basketball team fared poorly. The tennis team had a mediocre season, but during the summer combined with Yale to defeat an Oxford-Cambridge squad at Eastbourne, England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Won Five Yale Contests Last Year | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Goodrich, when the rubber market collapsed in 1937, took a $5,653,000 inventory write-down which put it $878,580 in the red (even after a $593,249 profit on foreign exchange). But last week, Goodrich's President Samuel Brown Robertson reported sales up 27.4%, a $3,122,728 profit, instead of last year's $209,551 loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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