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...hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner, five standard Pullmans. It's an Act of God. It won't help you to call the Governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: 'Spring Cleaning | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

This device consists of providing a small pad ror each diner, upon which he will write what he wishes to eat. Thus is eliminated the need for shouting or repeating an order, thus is promoted quiet and quickness. The meal pad is but a minor suggestion for improvement, yet it is the erasing of petty annoyances which makes University life more pleasant and more worthwhile. Farley Demotes 1-Cent Stamps Washington to -New York "Herald Tribune" March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME-SAVER | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

Beside the Senate fight between Roadbuilder Bulkley and Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Even Number | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Vagabond felt pleasantly stimulated as he swung down the platform to his car, and handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

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