Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Parker Lloyd-Smith, 29, Managing Editor of FORTUNE; by jumping from the balcony of the 23rd-floor Manhattan apartment where he lived with his mother. Reason: unknown, except that he left a note for his mother, who was in the country, which contained the remark, "Heat is frightful." Son of the late Justice Walter Lloyd-Smith of the New York Supreme Court, he was educated at The Hill School (1920), Princeton University (1924, Cap & Gown Club, active in theatricals) and Magdalen College. Oxford (one year). When called to TIME in 1928 he was on the staff of the Albany...
...than ever in Manitoba, presumably attracted from the desiccated swamps and waterways of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quebec has had ample rainfall (as has the entire Atlantic Coast) this summer. Quebec birds seem normal in numbers and health. In his next issue Editor Raymond Prunty Holland of Field & Stream will remark: "It is hard to believe that a healthy pair of canvasbacks, having found their home destroyed by drought, would not move on farther north, east or west. until they found suitable conditions." He would have had the new regulations delayed until it was certain that ducks and geese...
...employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest, why don't yuh rubber da rag?'' Dr. Durston, on business somewhere in the background, overheard the remark, thought it apt. Next day every machine, desk, locker and press in the Standard office carried the words "Rubber da Rag" on neat white cards...
That blunt remark, truer than most statesmen liked to have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission...
...desk in the office. Selznick had a sign made which said "General Manager" and put it on the desk. When, some months later, he got a memorandum from Laemmle which said "accepting your resignation" he had acquired a knowledge of the tricks of the trade which enabled him to remark that the motion picture business "takes less brains than anything else in the world...