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...shall preserve the petticoat." cackled the Mahatma. "It really is the oddest souvenir of my already large collection...
...makes a pet, however, of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.; whenever this issue is mentioned he becomes a beaming bull. Fortnight or so ago Bear Smith departed for a vacation, announced he would visit Alaska, inspect Juneau's plants. Last week he saw the mines, bought a souvenir. It was a $25,000 brick of solid gold, weighing nearly 100 pounds. "Brick No. 1,000" will probably be sent to Bear Smith's office, set where it will bedazzle all who lack faith in Alaska Juneau. A few days later flush Bear Smith saw a picture...
President Hoover and TIME were talking about the American Red Cross. True it is that Jean Henri Dunant published in 1862 a booklet, Un Souvenir de Solferino, lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with...
...TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would...
...funnier than any burlesque could be. It is funny in an amiable, homely way, as if long before the sound-device or Prohibition had ever been heard of a company had somehow made Ten Nights in a Bar-Room with sound and revived it now as a gentle souvenir of the cinema technique as well as the moral problems of old times. Even routine lines seem packed with delicious possibilities...