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...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: State of the World | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Class of 1910 which featured such celebrities as Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sober Statistics | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Christian name to designate an endroit which invites not even the slightest thought of anything distinguished; I have reference to "The Society for the Prevention of Calling Lavatories John." The Society is of Detroit origin and confine, but it may be that mention of its existence in TIME will prompt the organization of companion chapters in other centers-perhaps even a national unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...this hard-boiled pronouncement, a prompt reply came not from a Guildsman but from liberal, hard-hitting Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post. To A. N. P. A.'s directors Publisher Stern wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Stern v. A. N. P. A. | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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