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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seek a vision nearer the stars, I will not Praise a world I cannot claim...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

Though I admit that this feat might not prove so difficult for the Count, I was given to understand that his sole claim to distinction in the conflict had been the pinking of his tail surfaces. F. V. NASH Nash Conley Co. Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1935 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned with two tests of the AAAct which taxes processors to raise money to pay farmers to reduce output.* One of these, brought by eight Louisiana rice millers who claim processing taxes are illegal, will be argued next week. The other is that of the Hoosac Mills Corp. of New Bedford, Mass, which was argued this week. The receivers of Hoosac Mills, one of whom is the late Calvin Coolidge's great & good friend William Morgan Butler, appealed to a Federal Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Marble v. Velvet | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Owner of this ancient treasure is a Syrian antique dealer named Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, who is careful not to claim too much for his cup. As exhibited last week, it is referred to only as the Great Chalice of Antioch, but Mr. Kouchakji has published at his own expense a vast two-volume monograph by famed Antiquary Gustavus Augustus Eisen, which gives the reader much to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chalice in Brooklyn | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Even before he went to Washington, Republican Jardine had had a better job as president of Kansas State Agricultural College. The University of Wichita's only claim to fame was its Omnibus College, which enrolled 700 students each summer for a study-junket about the U. S. and Canada (TIME, July 17, 1933). Upon taking office, Mr. Jardine found that among solid Wichitans the university was considered a bit uppish. Forthwith he announced that the university would consider it a prime function to acclimate its students in the regional culture of Wichita, Kans. The Omnibus College was disowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wichita Worries | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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