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...which was to quarrel with me frequently. However, in the 37 years I have been at the newspaper bench nearly everybody in Trenton has quarrelled with me at some time. As to Ferdinand W. Roebling Jr., now at the head of the company, he is not only the biggest giver, both publicly and privately to worthwhile things, but he invariably wears a dinner jacket when the Roeblings entertain small parties and I don't recall ever seeing him in "white tie and tails," but I suppose he has 'em. Many of the important devices for which the Roeblings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

According to ancient Greek legend, Aphrodite is remembered as having risen naked from the sea, not in draperies. Also, she was a goddess of fair weather, "giver of prosperous voyages," would not likely have been born in a blizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grecian Vapor | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Uncle Sam's dollar job-giver was Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, who made available last week a special obligation of the Government- 2% Treasury certificates in denominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jobs for Dollars | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Died. Richard Teller Crane Jr., 58, president since 1914 of The Crane Co. of Chicago (plumbing fixtures), brother of onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Married. Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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