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Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Out of Congress: He lives modestly on Woodland Drive, N. W., when in Washington, drives a Ford coupe to the Capitol or to Burning Tree Golf Club (average score: 100). Outside Detroit he lovingly, bitterly maintains a failing farm, which he once offered rent-free to anyone who could make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

If you owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Extremely Bright Boys | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Outside Congress: In Washington he rents a comfortable old-fashioned house at 1822 19th Street, K.W. He avoids most social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Next morning, while the Government's army in Santo Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANTO DOMINGO: Courier Cabot | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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