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Grown from an old Spanish settlement, San Antonio (pop. 232,000) is the New Orleans of Texas. Though surrounding oil & gas have turned it into a bustling busi ness city, its large and picturesque Mexican quarter, its lovely old Catholic missions, the remains of the ancient Spanish Governor's Palace still give it a hot Latin charm. Through its streets crowd soldiers from Fort Sam Houston, cadets and officers from the Army's nearby aviation fields - Brooks, Kelly and Randolph ("West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Superlative Century | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses must be secured to import or export silver. The effect of these laws enacted in 1934 was to pre vent speculation in silver in the U. S., put the silver futures market out of busi ness, leave the Treasury in complete control of the U. S. silver situation. Since Mr. Morgenthau had not exercised that control to suit the silver bloc, it was content to reopen the silver market, give con trol back to the speculators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Something on Silver | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

With Edmands and Captain England again leading the way by scoring nine and eight goals respectively, the Varsity lacrosse team completely outclassed a weak Brown ten 21-1 on the Busi- ness School field Saturday afternoon for their fourth straight victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...times last week a strapping, coffee-colored man in a baby-blue wrapper went out in front of the curtain of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to bow right & left in a shattering storm of applause. Ten times there appeared with him a stocky, wavy-haired man in busi- ness clothes who stood and looked bewildered. The coffee-colored man was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, the bewildered one Composer Louis Gruenberg. Because Gruenberg had been fascinated by a short, stark play of Eugene O'Neill's called Emperor Jones, because he had hunted O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O'Neill into Opera | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Longtime head of American Steel Foundries, President Lament well knows the highly competitive steel business. Un like his predecessors he will devote all his time to the Institute, will receive a large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel Tsar? | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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