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A Latin master at Lawrenceville last week glanced over a paper, chuckled, went off to play golf. . . . Heat shimmered over a brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens. . . . Perspiring Hill students finished a tennis match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Boards | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

"The Horror of It" is the most powerful piece of propaganda printed since the war. It is peace propaganda, and unlike the work of those whose business it was fifteen years ago to raise hatred to its worst pitch, this book has every moral sanction in its favor. Everything in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HORROR OF IT | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

"The McJunkin organization" is an agency formed in 1905 by William David McJunkin, a rather quiet gentleman, now 62 with grey hair. One of his first accounts was that of Samuel Insull and he still handles most of the Insull advertising business. He denies a persistent rumor that he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: With Fife & Drum | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Eagle. The mouth-twisting name of a pencil firm started in 1856 was Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Reckendorfer. Later it became Eagle Pencil Co. It makes fountain pens, has the largest timber reserves of any U. S. pencil company, boasts of having invented the inserted eraser and indelible pencil. It is run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pencils | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

As the burden of the first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Five Years from Now | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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