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...delivered by the Mexican Government to His Majesty's Government three weeks ago. when Mexico jibed that even great powers like Britain were behind in payment of debts, dragged the skeleton of Britain's $4,000,000,000 War debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Denying rumers that he was that way about Shirley Temple, the seven-year old Terror insisted that he was entirely fancy free. But when Radcliffe girls were mentioned, he frothed at the month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gargantua The Great Flatly Refuses Generous Yale Football Scholarship | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

...that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction and taught himself how to play them. Increasing fame as an authority brought him a seven-year engagement in 1902 with Boston's Chickering & Sons, for whom, he made clavichords, harpsichords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Militant Antiquarian | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Last April the commodity markets of the world were at seven-year highs when President Roosevelt's announcement that he considered the prices of durable goods excessive, sent copper, lead, wheat tobogganing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Last week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory & Defeat | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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