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Contemplation of this social phenomenon was interrupted by the noisy arrival of that obsequious slave of the Capitalist State, the Fire Department. With misdirected enthusiasm they cast a damper upon the whole affair. They not only put out the fire but earnestly insisted that they knew nothing whatever as to the whereabouts of the Lindbergh baby. Both actions had a vastly sobering effect on the crowd. Dispirited, the upper middle classes retreated into its painted towers and the mob retired into the arms of its painted women. The Vagabond went and played a haunting melody on the Lowell House bells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...young, dull or brilliant, Mr. Ohrstrom could scarcely have foreseen in March 1929 that it would rain hardly at all in the summer of 1930. The dryness that year had a desiccating effect upon the revenues of Tri-Utilities' Federal Water Service Corp. This damper summer the president of Federal Water (Christopher Tompkins Chenery) has announced that while earnings are lower, they are steady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Twin of Prosperity | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande. Wires from the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Foul Purpose | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Five damper-pedal studies Whiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTHUR WHITING GIVES PIANO CONCERT TODAY | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...Five Damper-pedal studies Whiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITING GIVES PIANO CONCERT ON WEDNESDAY | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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