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...unemployment and business depression are bound to last for many months; during that period, college graduates will find it harder and harder to get any jobs at all, let alone the jobs they want. It never has been too easy for them to procure positions and it is oven more difficult for those who have only a vague iden of what they want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE UNEMPLOYED? | 11/13/1930 | See Source »

...pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plume | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Into this Midwest oven last week went Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde and Chairman of the Farm Board Alexander Legge to preach the gospel of wheat acreage reduction. Before they left Washington they solemnly warned wheat producers that ahead of them lay seven lean years with "world wheat prices . . . appreciably lower than in the last seven years" (TIME, July 14). Secretary Hyde, comparing himself with Paul Revere, declared: "We are posted as sentries on the lookout towers to see what is coming. We would be derelict in our duty if we didn't warn the farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Heat &. Wheat | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Then, without warning, Capone walked into Chicago police headquarters. One hand was bandaged; he said he had burned it taking a roast of beef from an oven. Blandly he asked if he was "wanted" Chief Stege told him emphatically he was NOT wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Study In Rumor | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Amos and Andy were sitting with rather weary expressions on their faces reading the newspapers. Both had some sort of red pigment smeared on their faces which made them look as though they had just come out of an oven. "You sit down here and I'll lie down there," greeted Andy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wearied and Pigment-Smeared, "Amos'n Andy" Scorn Jokes and Apply Philosophy to Humor--Amos Once at Harvard | 1/10/1930 | See Source »

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