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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...instance: Lawrence had insisted that Murry and Katherine Mansfield should go to live with him, in New Mexico, which would certainly be a curious place for Middleton Murry of Oxford and Fleet Street. Murry said he was willing to do it "purely out of affection" for Lawrence' and Lawrence refused. Then, "If I went with him there simply out of personal affection, it was a pre-posterous situation if he continued to repudiate, in all his open professions, the worth of that personal affection which alone would take me with him. Further, if the plan was that we should simply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Start of The Rainbow | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...assisting Rodman Wanamaker take care of the Widow Harding's affairs. When she died, he went with Mr. Wanamaker to the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Commission (1926). Finally President Coolidge unobtrusively tucked him away into the U. S. Shipping Board, as assistant to James Caldwell Jenkins, vice president of Merchant Fleet Corp. Last week George Christian gladly resigned that place. Samuel Ungerleider, who a month ago resigned from the brokerage firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider to become president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: POLITICAL NOTES Pilgrim's Progress | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Voted approval of the Government's new policy of building up the air fleet announced last week by the Marquess of Londonderry in what members of the House of Commons refer to only as "another place" (see above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...skipper of the Black gauntlet had never won the long race home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Churchill's Churchill | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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