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Prime U. S. button-presser is President Hoover. But last week the President could not oblige. In his stead Vice President Curtis did some button-pressing to flash a signal from Washington to Rhode Island. There a cannon boomed salutes. An airplane dropped noisemakers. U. S. Cruiser Dallas tooted its whistle. Two little girls cut ribbons while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rhode Island's Bridge | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...play). But Producer Carl Laemmle forfeited the chance by the dexterity of his workmanship. He depicts Jews, Irishmen, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Russians mingling in a U. S. city in a plausible manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write the English language?" So Ma and Pa go to night school. One day, when Ma is reciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Take a belief in your destiny, borrow a dress suit, astonish a social gathering to which you had no invitation with your brilliancy, and your fortune is made. This is the philosophy of John Paul Bart, tailor's presser, self-made man, who in four short acts raises himself from nothing to the pinnacle of power...

Author: By Arthur KEEP Occ., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/13/1917 | See Source »

...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Experiments on Sap Flow and Sap Presser." Dr. H. C. Hayes. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 10/16/1911 | See Source »

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