Word: nones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...huge success. The planes reached Buenos Aires, got a warm welcome from President Ortiz, awed his capital by flying over it in formation during the inauguration. Cried the delighted Critica, under an eight-column streamer headline designed to suggest the U. S. flag: "Welcome to the aviators of Democracy. . . . None has bombarded cities; none has spread horror and death among women and children . . .nothing connected with their splendid trip is in any way suggestive of the spirit that has brought others fliers to these shores...
Hefty, squarejawed, 51, President Ortiz belongs to none of Argentina's influential "old families." From an importing firm and small law practice in 1910 he has built a $4,000,000 fortune. Last week, as he took over the Presidency, he had the backing of foreign and Argentine financial interests, who expect an era of good business under their businessman-President. In a country where foreign capital has some $4,000,000,000 invested and where exports of the livestock and agricultural barons are 90% of the nation's business, it looked as if they would get what...
...axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...
...last week of February 1923, a handful of young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach...
...were paid more). He decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared to pay the first dividend on the preferred stock. None was paid on common stock until 1930. By then TIME'S loyal family of readers numbered 307,-528-187 of whom had paid $60 apiece for lifetime subscriptions (no longer sold...