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"His Majesty King George is everybody's King ! And the first words all those listening throughout the Empire would wish me to say are those of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the King's recovery. His patience and courage drew the sympathy of all nations and proved a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Day | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Aside from its ringing appeal to Advisory Councilors (who thus far have made no reply), the Open Letter devoted itself chiefly to an interpretation of the Lucky Strike campaign (which, however, it failed to mention by name) as subversive to the youth of the nation. Having told how millions of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babies' Blood | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Secretary of State Stimson last week found his desk strewn with vexatious matters appertaining to that troublesome, vermiform little neighbor, Cuba. As President Hoover's foreign minister, Statesman Stimson had to keep abreast of Cuba's internal disorders, of which several were stirring last week. Complaints centred chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appendix | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

When the textile industry declined and power sites began to be cheap, into New England from the midwest went a little man used to doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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