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Secretary Hyde was speechmaking in Louisville, Ky. when the Senate's query reached him. Long distance telephone wires to the White House hummed busily as the wishes of President Hoover were ascertained. With the President's sanction Secretary Hyde telegraphed the Senate a long, rambling message about Red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Misery Question | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Saul Singer at 15 was proprietor of a hardware store in Sebastopol. At 17 he was earning $4 a week in a Manhattan sweatshop. He became in due course president of the $15,000,000 Garment Centre Capital buildings, president of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Footing the Bill | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

With his music Taylor did not get off to a happy start. In the opening ballroom scene the waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigious Cleveland | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Before the War most typical of the gay luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gypsy Singer | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

The son of a Presbyterian minister, George Grey Barnard was born 67 years ago in Bellefonte, Pa., now famed as the "hell hole" of trans-Appalachian aviation. He spent his early childhood and learned taxidermy in that delight of small-time comedians, Kankakee, Ill. After studying sculpture at the Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arch Man | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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