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Chicago's fiscal fix last week began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Bankrupt Chicago | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

"From the painter's point of view, a woman is merely a short-legged animal. In a long skirt . . . the effect of her short legs and disproportionately large head is softened, but cut her off in a horizontal line at her knees and hips and have two awkward Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Declaration of Independence | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Two months ago the Amateur Athletic Union sent out some invitations with 5? stamps on them. There were five of them, addressed to the governing athletic bodies of Germany, France, Italy, England and Finland, asking 14 of the greatest runners in Europe to run in the U. S. this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Petkiewicz | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Greatest, perhaps, of tanka turners was Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769), who claimed to be descended from the divine Three-Legged Crow which guided the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu, in all his conquests. Crow Scion Mabuchi credited whatever evils befell Japan to her contact with "debased Chinese learning." His greatest pupil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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