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The passage of this basically important legislation made two triumphs in as many weeks, for that white-haired old Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, who is not in the habit of winning victories. Last fortnight he got through Congress his constitutional reform abolishing the "lame duck" session of Congress.?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Yellow Dog's End | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

In 1921, while William Samuel Paley was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," published it in his Tales of the Jazz Age. Buried on his remote estate a man found a massive diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jazz-Age Diamond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Professor Hocking is not teaching this year, but will return from Asia where he is making a study of the relations between the different religions principally in India and China. The committee with which he is connected is composed of Rufus Jones of Haverford, and former President Faunce of Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PHILOSOPHY COURSES WILL BE GIVEN NEXT YEAR | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

Many perfumes, especially the heavy or oriental scents, are in themselves mildly anesthetic. They paralyze the olfactory nerves of the user so that she becomes indiscreet in the quantity that she uses, else she cannot perceive any scent at all: while those, unaccustomed to it, forced to endure her propinquity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

The Hershfield work shop is high in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The front of the door is panelled with richly carved Oriental wood which, says its owner, once belonged to an Emperor. To it is thumbtacked a hand lettered sign: "Can see no one by appointment. Phone Murray Hill 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nisht Gehdelt | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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