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Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eyes & Ears | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Meanwhile in Washington wheat prices produced political palpitations. The drive to get the Government to DO SOMETHING was centred on Farm Board Chairman Stone. But Mr. Stone's head and heart were steeled against the clamor. He persisted in his refusal to hold all stabilized wheat off the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: 25c Wheat | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

In the boom days of 1928 a stock called Alaska Juneau sold for $1 a share and this year it has sold for $20. It is, of course, a gold-mining stock-the one kind of stock which Bears can logically be bullish on- for when everything else goes down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear v. Bear | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York City's Bronx Zoo, widened the eyes of a St. Louis audience last week with stories of a snake that can fly. It is the rare, seldom captured Chrysopelea ornata of India and Malaya, a black snake with a yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Flying Snakes | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

The people in this novel have no names, but it does not matter. Author Carlisle keeps her story to such a sharp point, keeps attention so centred on the three characters of her triangle that you can not get mixed up. The girl and the boy were in college together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Triangle | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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