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...thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled the hour like a bad omen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

...daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Receiving the World | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN, PROCTORS MAKE DETOUR TO AVOID BAR LUCK | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

...head office of Harriman National (at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 44th St.) looks across to the northeast corner at a large empty office which once housed the notorious Bank of United States.* Ill omen for Joe Harriman was the news last week that the conviction of Bernard K. Marcus, president, and Saul Singer, vice president, of the Bank of U. S. was affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. Banksters Marcus & Singer were notified to get ready to serve their three-to-six-year terms in Sing Sing (the conviction of Herbert Singer, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bedroom, Jail, Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...basis, Dr. Sussman said Roan "was among the producers that adhered faithfully to the 1932 understanding until after that understanding had been repeatedly breached." Then Felicien Cattier did what the brusque Belgians always do when the outlook of a copper conference becomes beclouded: sailed for home. Alarmed at this omen, Roan Antelope quickly dispatched its personable young Managing Director Arthur D. Storke from London to Manhattan. But the other producers did not bulge from their stand. Politely-for much as coppermen may bellow at each other over a desk or dining room table, a conference room always freezes them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Africa Speaks | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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