Word: nors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither the nose nor the keenness escaped Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1740-1828), whose proud, grim marble bust is generally conceded to be the best, most expressive Washington likeness. U. S. patriots and artists were glad last week to hear that it had been purchased for a U.S. client by...
About Washington last week spread a story that President Hoover, favoring tariff flexibility, had secretly asked the Tariff Commission to supply him with the names of Democratic Senators who had appealed to it for higher tariff rates under the law's flexible, clause for commodities of, local interest to...
Carrying objects, and perhaps eventually persons, by means of rockets is an engineering phase of physics in which Professor Goddard, 47, has been experimenting for 17 years. The principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The...
Last week, however, John North Willys disappeared from the automobile world with the sale of his entire Willys-Overland holdings (some 800,000 shares of common). Nor did any one individual take his place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co...
Many a Manhattanite last week began to think that putting savings in a sock was perhaps not such a foolish idea. Just as state officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke...