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...Heard that the House Agriculture Committee had approved, 13 to 8, of immediate action on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, had laid aside the Curtis-Crisp compromise bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

None the less, last week this legendary Morgan Eve was the occasion for a crisp announcement to the press. It read: "Mr. Francis Dwight Bartow, Mr. Arthur Marvin Anderson and Mr. William Ewing, who have hitherto held procuration for our firm in New York, are this day admitted as partners in our firms in New York (J. P. Morgan & Co.), Philadelphia (Drexel & Co.), London (Morgan, Grenfell & Co.) and Paris (Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan Eve | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Soon after the "Dean of Cardinals" had voiced his vain hope, there came a crisp announcement from the Holy Office. His Holiness will not raise the plenum of the Sacred College at present. Moreover only two new Cardinals? both Italians?will be created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: More Cardinals | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Within the next three months it is possible that an English drawl may come rippling over the ocean with a "Hello--are you there?", to be answered by a crisp Vermont "Yes?" For George of Buckingham and Windsor, and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth are to inaugurate the transatlantic telephone service by what the Associated Press calls a "short conversation". And already the curious are wondering what will be the topic of conversation. Whatever it is it will prove food for columnists and Will Rogers; kings and presidents don't give each other a ring every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERATOR, OPERATOR | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Last March, its directors, ardent TIME readers, recognizing the superiority of your style of news writing, published a new Clarion modeled after TIME the weekly newsmagazine. Students delighted in the manner in which even the most remote news was transformed to a crisp, subtle article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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