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He was gazing out across the wide and lovely and silent desert. Undulating, pastel tinted. A white handkerchief knotted at each of the four corners rested upon the famous shock of curly grey hair.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Disagree | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Once Ogden Goelet's yacht, then a despatch boat for the U. S. Navy, then the presidential yacht Mayflower, a trim white ship lay tied up in Philadelphia last week being changed once more into a naval craft to serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wilted Flower | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Sudden Silence. Puzzling to many citizens must have been the sudden quiet that fell upon the Insurgent and Regular combatants immediately after Philosopher Dewey's exhortation. Senator Norris softly passed the matter off by saying, "Isn't that funny?" He promised to pro pose a Constitutional amendment doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL N(: Lucas, Norris et al. | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Samisentiment | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

¶One evening President Hoover went to the Capitol, took a front row seat before the Senate rostrum. Before him rested a grey coffin in which lay the body of North Carolina's Senator Lee Slater Overman who had died that morning. The Overman desk (on the aisle, second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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