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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the foods which have been purchased are 190 pounds of turkey, 230 pounds of other meats, 280 pounds of apples, 289 pounds of sweet potatoes, 96 plum puddings, 230 pounds of onions, and 230 pounds of squash. Any students with cars who are willing to help deliver these dinners should see Miss Hamilton at Phillips Brooks House today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEEDY FAMILIES RECEIVE FOOD FROM BROOKS HOUSE | 11/29/1933 | See Source »

...true, but in all parts of Japan the Army is recruited chiefly from among the peasantry and the Army takes care of its own. Last week Army pressure, which has shaken enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly rich since Poet William Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Greatest Shakedown | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhofen; she showed up "simply dressed in a brassière of milktins connected by dog chains and wearing on her head a plum-cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amiable Gossip | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...seems likely, the Soviet Union is recognized by the United States within the year, the event may prove of considerable significance in our Asiatic relations, particularly with that fanatically aggressive nation, Japan. For should our trade with Russia expand (and that is the plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...SECOND SPRING-Janet Beith- Stokes ($2.50). Next to the Nobel Prize ($39,942) the Stokes $20,000 award, open to novelists of all nations, was the plumpest plum on the literary tree this year. When Publisher Stokes dangled this golden fruit before the world's nose, more than 600 writers took a bite at it. As in a newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Sampler | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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