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...basically Conservative, British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATIVE LABOUR | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

...founders of the fact that vocational and cultural courses will be combined, that fine arts will be recognized as one of the four major fields of concentration. During her last two years a student will be given credit for nonresident work. Every girl will be encouraged to give free rein to her individual tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sod-Turning | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Frontier Days | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Davis '34, G. H. Foley '32, W. C. Gregg '33, V. S. Hodges '34, J. T. Hughes '33, S. D. King '34, M. F. Lowenstein '32, I. C. Martin '34, S. C. Monroe '34, J. C. Neylon '34, R. W. Parker '33, R. W. Pond '33, R. L. C. Rein'l '34, G. B. Schick '32, C. Sedgwick '34, and H. Ulfelder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF 22 NEW MEN | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

Last week Publisher Delacorte and Editor Anthony announced Ballyhoo, a magazine which will not solicit advertising. It will appear on newsstands July 1 on a tentative fortnightly schedule. Editor Anthony, with free rein to be funny as he can, promised to plow the allegedly virgin field of advertising as a source of humor. (His announcement: "Read a FRESH magazine! All our editors are CELLOPHANE WRAPPED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sporting Ad-cracker | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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