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...morning you can see a wheel-barrow† propelled by one Chinaman trudging along with his load of from twelve to sixteen persons, taxiing them to work in the factories. Can any of the present day Negro porters (Pullman) convey their passengers thusly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood, and he does not convey that sense of apostolic authority which surrounds Mr. Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: G. O. P. | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Diederich was born in Hungary in 1884. His sculpture and iron work have a modernistic tone, and the long, slim lines of his figures convey admirably the idea of swift motion inherent in most of his works. His favorite subjects are taken from out-of-doors life especially of polo and hunting scenes, in which his speeding figures seem fairly to fly over the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

...several days of negotiations, the Wafd demanded and obtained as a minimum sop to its prestige, the resignation of Sarwat and his cabinet. Prognostications were that Nahass Pasha would again attempt to force the creation of a Wafd cabinet, and might possibly be permitted to succeed if he would convey a secret pledge of "good behavior" to Baron Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sarwat's Treaty | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...sorrowful pageant not less than 1,000,000 Britons gazed reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Toward 1940 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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