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Like a fertile polyp, another of Russia's vast, unwieldy government bureaus subdivided itself last week, continued to function. In obedience to Dictator Stalin's injunction for decentralization, the Supreme Economic Council was subdivided into three new commissariats: Heavy Industry, Light Industry, Lumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Commissars | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Second Counsellor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) ; of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City. For 18 years Presiding Bishop of his church, Bishop Nibley was chosen Second Counsellor in 1925, thus becoming a member of the highest Mormon body. A lumber and sugar tycoon, he was rated Mormonism's wealthiest man. Bishop Nibley had three wives, espoused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Lumber production was at such a low level that orders exceeded output by 19% for the first week in the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Eastern Shore Justice | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...engaged her to take pictures of their Terminal Tower project. Then FORTUNE sought her, brought her to Manhattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviets by Camera | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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