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...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Last week proud Virginians unveiled a great bronze bust of Native Son Sam Houston in the Capitol at Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Big Drunk | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...have been secret, but its proceedings leaked out in such detail that everyone who knows the cunning Finance Minister assumed that he had chosen this astute means of letting Japanese public opinion crystallize around the fact that it is now a case of rule or ruin, triumph or bust. In the suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends herself and risks economic collapse at home. To this Japan's militarists stoutly retort: "There is no such thing as an economic collapse. One can always go bankrupt and start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Red Ink Bonds | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...receiver, Editor Raymond Moley was presented with a bust of himself by the management for having operated Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis for a year at a profit. Asked if the cocktail lounge were responsible for having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only for the name plates from his box and office doors, for the secret desk panel in which he used to hide his seasons' plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Good-by | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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