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...With his face burned a pinkish red by sun and sea wind, President Hoover returned to the White House from reviewing the U. S. fleet off the Virginia Capes. Aboard his reviewing ship, the U. S. S. Salt Lake City, the President had clambered up and down steel ladders, poked in and out of gun turrets, inspected the officers & crew, thoroughly enjoyed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Harvard has her share of reds--of all shades from a pinkish tint to a dark blood-red--and Harvard is rather fond of them in a very mild sort of way. They add to the variety of the college scene. The extreme radicals, with their clowning, are frequently amusing; while the more moderate radicals are usually more wide-awake, better-informed, and more stimulating company than their less liberal fellows. Progressives are a valuable, even necessary accessory of a community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMPUS COMMUNISM | 4/30/1930 | See Source »

What gave this statement political significance was the forthright Wet position taken by her November opponent, James Hamilton Lewis, whom Illinois Democrats had last week nominated for the Senate in their primary. " Jim Ham" Lewis is now 67. His famed whiskers are no longer the glittering pinkish red they were when (1913-19) he was a Senator from Illinois, but have turned a silvery grey.* But his speech is as flowery as ever, his manners as ostentatiously courtly, his choice in waistcoats and neckware as vividly colorful. Said he last week of the Republican primary and Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: McCormick v. Lewis | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom suites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Modest Place | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...President Hoover last week motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: High Hope | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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