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...International's drive was to be the last for reasons connected less with conservation than with the temperament of the Chippewa Indians. Minnesota's only remaining stands of virgin timber are on its Indian reservations and Government preserves. Some years ago, International bought its timber from the Nett Lake Reservation for about $90,000. At the time it was the plan of the U. S. Indian Service to get the whole area cut clean in the hope that the Chippewas would take up farming. This plan has now been changed because the Chippewas prefer to live by Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Drive | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...question in its title the result would be a tragedy (see p. 24), but it does not do so. It starts when a drunken director named Maximilian Carey (Lowell Sherman) walks into a Hollywood restaurant and orders six glasses of water. He is served by Mary Evans (Constance Ben-nett), a waitress who wants to be a star in cinema. She brings Carey his water so efficiently that he takes her to the opening of his picture and subsequently enables her to get a contract as an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Junior-Freshman game: N. S. Barnes '29 vs. Donald Merriman '31; Mark Hopkins '29 vs. R. E. Stebbins; T. D. Mumford '29 vs. G. T. Emmet '31; H. H. Proctor '29 vs. H. B. Hollins '31; H. T. Cobb '29 vs. G. H. Bartol '31; W. W. Nett '29 vs. R. L. Tower '31; Robeson Mailey '29 vs. G. M. Phelps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS SQUASH TOURNEY WILL BEGIN PLAY THIS AFTERNOON | 2/8/1928 | See Source »

...last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost a year of diligent seeking, by the election of Barrister Ben- nett as Conservative Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Ottawa | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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