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Meanwhile Boss Guffey hurried to the White House. There he took out pencil and paper, added his votes to Pinchot's votes, threw in, for no good reason, Roland Morris' votes and was able to show the President that the Pennsylvania primaries had really been a great "liberal" victory since the total overwhelmed Reed's ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Pennsylvania Oracle | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...week, rose moderately. Volume of transactions, however, continued to slide down to new low records. In a short Saturday session only 249,300 shares changed hands-lowest figure since July 1932. Even the Toronto market was more active. Having nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat crop at $7.80 per bu.; 2) built 1,000,000 small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Trade War. Aiming at Japan, Mr. Runciman announced last week that imports of foreign textile goods to Britain's Crown colonies would be limited henceforth to the average amount imported irom each country during the years 1927-31. While statisticians with slide rule and pencil last week figured out these quota restrictions, it was a fact that exports of Japanese cotton goods to all countries rose from 1,413,480.000 sq. yd. in 1927 to 2.090,228,000 sq. yd. in 1933 and surpassed the total British exports of cotton goods for the first time in history. Though tariffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Keeper of Peace | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Young Memorial Museum, gaped in perplexity at a visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin Prison voted as the most outstanding woman in public life Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, then hung an oil painting of her on the walls of their school building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...students showing are Eliot F. Noyes 2S.A., who has water colors of a beach and boats; Nelson Aldrich, water colors of French subjects with a view of Mont St. Michel; Ferdinand G. Morrill 2 S.A., three water colors; Paul M. Heffernan 1 S.A., water colors of buildings and some pencil drawings; and Paul W. Jones 1S.A., drawings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty, Students Exhibit Works at Robinson Annex | 5/9/1934 | See Source »

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