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...president, like a schoolboy, is required to do certain tasks in a certain length of time. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act set forth that within 90 days of its passage President Hoover must appoint a new Tariff Commission of three Democrats, three Republicans (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.). Moreover the President, bold in defense of the unpopular bill, promised 1) to appoint more expert and impartial economists than had composed the old Commission, 2) to issue educational bulletins from time to time explaining the tariff and its beneficent "flexibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lesson, Oaths | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard from the throne-room peal upon peal of schoolboy laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Diplomat, Old Style* | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed the nose crusader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Yamagata Trumpeter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed who was no U. S. citizen, who never visited America or wrote about it, but whose works every schoolboy is supposed to know-John Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Milton for Poet | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Like many another famed cartoonist, Rea Irvin served his apprenticeship on a San Francisco newspaper.* After intermittent work on newspapers and as an itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stripper Irvin | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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