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Alice's head was hurting her more than ever, and she began to scowl as much as the Red Queen. "But Marx says that economics go ever further than ever you think. Why, the whole world's run by it. History is made by economics, just like your going to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

Thirteen years ago when Spada first set out to make a name for himself with a double-barreled shotgun and a pocketful of shells, he was a plump, handsome young man, looking for all the world like a road company tenor in Cavalleria Rusticana. His reputation began to grow when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Happy as a Cuckoo | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

Softspoken, never given to profanity, he is a teetotaler, plays neither golf nor cards, accepts no invitations to banquets, luncheons, conventions. His success he attributes to friends among the poor. Annually at Christmas he feeds 5,000 Democrats' mouths. Always he carries a pocketful of 25? pieces which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Little Tammany | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

In the spring of 1915 he built a goose trap, started to band the great wild Canadian goose. Naturalists knew that the Canadian goose flew into the North in the spring, but they needed more information about its nesting place, its migratory paths. In October, Jack Miner received word of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Write Jack Miner | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Probably the best known timepiece in the world is Big Ben, giant clock atop the Houses of Parliament. His Majesty's Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson revealed in London last week that Big Ben was not only one of the most famed, but, for an old clock, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Benpenny | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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