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...Senator Glass and Counsel Pecora shook hands for photographers as they made up their quarrel as to committee procedure. Senator Glass won his point of demanding advance information on what Inquisitor Pecora was trying to extract from witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters were horrified when she told them why she had no cause to hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Female Weakness | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...capital lately went into Granville Bros, (new name: Granville Aircraft Corp.). Alfred D. Chandler, longtime backer of Giuseppe Bellanca who quit him following a quarrel last year, turned to Granville. With Mr. Chandler went former Bellanca Vice President William B. Hurlburt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Gee-Bee | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...roped one. After digging-hours his children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over Ty Ty went on digging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cracked Crackers | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...novels have been Book-of-the-Month Club choices. A little over a year ago it was S. S. San Pedro; this week it is The Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move and glitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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