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Labor's formal but innocuous attack on the Speech (written of course not by King George but by Scot MacDonald) was launched by Labor M. P. Sir Stafford Cripps, an alert "comer" now forging to party leadership. Sir Stafford moved an amendment to the Throne Speech regretting that it had "omitted all items of socialistic legislation," saw his amendment killed by the crushing Government majority, largest in British history (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Clark University, a new-comer on the basketball schedule, has not had a too successful season, having lost all 11 of its games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLAY AGAINST CLARK UNIVERSITY | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Squirrels v. Bankers | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...join in hailing "Copey." He cannot be different at seventy from himself at sixty or at fifty. Doubtless he wears the same mustard suits, has the same temperamental aversion to drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Copey", Yesterday | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ten Peking Men | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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