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...small, swart, darting-eyed Auvergnat was happy last week as his special train thundered across five states toward President Herbert Hoover, who is six tones paler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Canvass | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Peterson, mad clear through, swore he would not pay one cent of tribute. Chairman Heino Nuutinen of the charivari committee retorted that they would stay there till he did, if it took a year. Twelve nights the charivari continued while Father Peterson grew grimmer and grimmer, Juoni & bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson appealed to Sheriff Elmer Saunders, had four leaders arrested, held in $50 bond by Ashland's Municipal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jobs | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...bigger, faster, more comfortable than the preceding one. The Corsair IV, which took ten months to build and cost $2,500.000, is 343 ft. long and has oil-burning engines which develop 6,000 h. p. It has the traditional piratical look of Morgan yachts -long, dark, heavy underneath; paler, suaver in the superstructure. Owner's quarters include a stateroom, office, bath, and big cedar closet. There are five staterooms for guests on the starboard side and a pantry, galley, and laundry to port. The Corsair IV is ten feet longer than the Orion, erstwhile "biggest in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Launchings | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...flowers crowds six deep gazed and sniffed at President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, two new roses originated by famed Rosarian Lyman B. Coddington of Murray Hill, N. J. President Herbert Hoover is a very harlequin of a rose. Shaded orange, yellow and pink, it is a larger, paler Talisman. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, unlike the delicate yellow Mrs. Calvin Coolidge introduced two years ago, is a rich velvety crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indoor Spring | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Raus mit dem Schieber!" bawled stentorian voices. "Out with the slippery guy!" Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Boos for Boess | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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