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Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Providence, R. I., newspaper reporter had stuck his nose-for-news into Caldwell's mount ing fame, reported how he had played for Brown as a freshman before entering Yale. By Yale's dual contract with Princeton and with Harvard, Caldwell can play no more Yale football. He can, however, play basketball & baseball in the winter & spring. †the same rules apply as in regular football except that it is unnecessary to tackle - a runner-with-the-ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Exasperated, the Paris press in particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rakovsky's Recall | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known to bookmakers. Doubleday, Doran & Co. will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property of the new company, hav ing been controlled for some time by Doubleday, Page. William Heinemann is dead. Fourteen miles outside of London stands the Heineman plant. The total list of active titles of these combined companies (including lesser subsidiaries) will be about 4,000. Doubleday, Doran authors include: Cobb Conrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Book Business | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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