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...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: $15,000,000 Storm | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...haired Ruth Tower-Corsan of Toronto: $3,000, first prize for the 10-mile Dominion Championship swim; in 5½ hr., with Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit second; in Lake Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Bitter Sweet (British & Dominions) is a lavender-scented reproduction of Noel Coward's operetta about a girl who married a young musician, became a dancer at the Viennese cafe where he led the orchestra, attracted the attentions of a lecherous captain, had her heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

First a day's session was held at Victoria, then a two-day session at Vancouver. The Government of British Columbia asked politely that the banks should be more liberal in their loans, asked that the province and cities should be allowed to borrow directly from the Dominion instead of through the banks. Some businessmen complained that loans were hard to get, because they must be approved by bank officers in the East. Bankers denied this and representatives of several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Canada's Show | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...there was any other issue than Harry Byrd's old dominion over the Old Dominion, it was the sound state of Virginia finances. These Candidate Peery solemnly vowed to carry on. Born 59 years ago on his father's farm in the southwest corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boss Byrd's Man | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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