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...Deputes were presented last week with the 1932 budget which, to the ingenuous eye, balanced. A little rapid pencil work by Deputies of the Left showed that it did nothing of the sort. There was an actual deficit of between $160,000,000 and $280,000,000 hidden by such devices as counting only nine months for expenditures but twelve months for receipts, and including Reparations payments which Germany obviously will not make because of the Hoover Moratorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Out Cabinet! | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...broadcast. On the stage last week Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria Jeritza made each and every one shake hands with 'little Jonathan Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Brothers | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Common Room wall paper, with its scenes of the American Revolution dominates the Exhibition. The architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, through C. A. Coolidge '81. Associate of Lowell House, have loaned two fine pencil drawings of the House. An early engraving of Harvard College in the exhibition is similar to the one used for the china of the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

Mayor Curley, sensible of this deficiency, has made the keys to Boston more than a pretty sentiment. He has builded his key in three parts, which together make a gesture of hospitality; and severally, prove to be a corkscrew, a pencil, and a comb. These adjuncts begin their work where other keys leave off. The corkscrew takes its guest past the portals to the very bosom the city, the pencil enshrines names and telephone numbers in his address-book, and the comb wishes him God-speed the morning after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVE ATQUE VALE | 2/5/1932 | See Source »

...title page of Pictorial Review, on each sheet of its letterhead, is a rococo device: a scroll with the numeral "13" and a pencil, surrounded by a wreath. That trademark was adopted by a German named William Paul Ahnelt shortly after he founded Pictorial Review 32 years ago. It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern business upon coming to the U. S. Last week Founder Ahnelt. 67, sold his magazine, long rumored "for sale," but for how much more than $13, he did not reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pictorial Sold | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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