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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
...dress of Britain's King and Queen for the benefit of kingless, queenless Americans. Last week it was the turn of the British press to report on the U. S. for the benefit of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's subjects. English newspapers made a thoroughgoing...
...winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that the name Oxford...
...several months much speculative cash has lain idle waiting till its owners got over speculating on economic trends. Three weeks ago some of the speculators made up their minds and the stockmarket moved tentatively upward without encouragement from industrial production. Last week the market slowly worked its way up past a minor "resistance point"-140 on. the Dow Jones industrial averages (1938 high 158.41; low 98.95)-waited for the sluggish railroad averages to "confirm" by rising from...
...pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when his boss refused to balance it, and turned into a first-line foe of the New Deal...