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...favorites through to their patronage rewards. And to satisfaction of this desire he felt himself entitled, for it was he, the Colorado doctor and Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope to a reality by getting Republican delegates piece by political piece. But now, these several months, the Work desire has been thwarted. He had no hand in Cabinetmaking. In Florida, he spent listless days waiting to see the President-elect whom perhaps he thought he had made. In fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Jobs, No Work | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...necessarily be followed. Mr. Strawn himself described the scheme as "embryonic." John W. O'Leary, suggested as head of the new regime, said that "the whole thing" was in a "formative state." and James Simpson, Marshall Field president, scolded Mr. Strawn for making a "premature" announcement. Yet, loose and shapeless as the plan at present appears, the business government movement, perhaps immediately inspired by the desirability of "cleaning" Chicago before the World's Fair of 1933, is undeniably under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Plan for Chicago | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Bergius' feat. Brilliant and useful too is another U. S. method of making artificial coal. Instead of throwing away the thick refuse oil left in refinery stills, it is heated in tubes several thousand feet long. This heating produces some vaporized, oil. The residue cools into shapeless blocks of bituminous coal, which can be processed just like natural soft coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coal & Fourth Kingdom | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Today Harvard College presents a fourfold outlook to the world, the Class of 1932 has quadrangled what would otherwise be a shapeless figure. No longer a hypothesis, it has become the Freshman Class. Though repetition of the fact have a familiar ring, it is yet necessary. Its first pronouncement was a charged to the Class of 1932. At that moment the name of Harvard was delivered into its hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLASS OF 1932 | 9/21/1928 | See Source »

...Under the middle chandelier stands a stocky, pale gentleman in faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vivat Gustavus Rex! | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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