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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina, which exceeds the U. S. in wheat exports, played the shrewdest hand at London last week, her delegation keeping mouse quiet. No mouseman, Sam McKelvie is the man who told the world Calvin Coolidge's recipe for home-made wheat porridge.† He knows that advertising, oratory, exhortation are potent weapons. As the Wheat Conference died last week he wished the Russians lumps in their porridge but to correspondents he constructively said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat Meet | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Death is the friend of fame. Its enemies are records and people with good memories, for legends depend on lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shrewd | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Hendaye Statement. Within 24 hours of his departure, correspondents learned that though Alfonso XIII might no longer be King of Spain, he was still the country's shrewdest politician. The train bearing the Queen and Royal children from Madrid stopped at Hendaye, on the French border, where French officials were waiting to give the Queen the same official greeting she had always had on her innumerable trips over the same line. Queen Victoria Eugenie appeared briefly at a window and made an announcement which historians last week were already calling the Hendaye Statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red, Purple & Yellow | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Lenin's shrewdest retreat was his NEP ("New Economic Policy"). Having found out that the State monopolies could not supply fast enough the goods which were absolutely demanded, Lenin retreated two steps in 1921 by admitting to Russia private, capitalistic traders nicknamed "Nepmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Shrewd Dictators | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...morning, evening and Sunday circulation pies of the World have been cut is shown in the following summaries, compiled from the frankest statements and shrewdest guesses available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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