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Pirate Gold found under a wild plum tree on New Providence Island (Nassau) in the Bahamas proved to consist last week of five bars worth...
Belted, muskrat-capped troopers kept the crowds moving in front of the door to the Executive Chamber in New York State's Capitol at Albany last week. Inside the large plum-carpeted room, Tammany Legislators from New York City sat in glum silence. Behind a great table, in the capacity of New York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas...
...family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister MacDonald, a life-long free trader, knows that Chancellor Chamberlain will buckle a tariff belt of some sort around Mother Britain, cannot stop this unwelcome belting...
Whenever Englishmen have spent a dull evening at the theatre or have sat down to a plum pudding only to find it has too much baking soda, they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...appointed to that position in a personal capacity," said Mr. Henderson. He vowed he will not surrender the plum, added enticingly, "It rests with your electors of Burnley whether I shall preside as your representative...