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...suspicion has been directed both against the anti-war and the pro-war factions. This gun was originally a part of the armament of the cruiser "Harvard" during the World War. With the loss of its handle, the gun apparently lost its pride, for it has begun to droop dejectedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUN STOCK MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS FROM UNION | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Man v. Machine | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...special Moscow-Berlin express, supplied by the Soviet Government, piled some 60 Chinese-men, women, children, soldiers, bodyguards and generals. In the centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Heaven-Sent Army | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...could the country attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way. Last week it was a leaner, graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn Party. Before accepting the nomination, President Hoover gave a lawn party to 500 important G. O. Partisans at the White House. Guest of honor was 71-year-old Mrs. Theodore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undefeated and Unafraid | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...little grey banking house John Pierpont Morgan the Elder let a black cigar droop from his lips. Through the door peered the late Edward Dean Adams, little known to Wall Streeters but a tower of strength to bankers. "Hello, Adams," muttered Mr. Morgan, "It's still going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One Hundred Millions | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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