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...revolution" in the British Parliamentary sense-as distinguished from Adolf Hitler's "heads will roll in the sand!" Last week the Labor Congress, satisfied that it had adopted a policy fresh and vigorous enough to win back millions of lost Labor votes, adjourned singing "The Red Flag." Spit in the Cream! Blackpool is a North British seaside resort that is anything but Red. Rumbling into Blackpool last week came the first-class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion the Party (which holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conventions & Contrasts | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...adjustments were made in the price of other brands (Corona Perfectos, Bock Panetelas, Villar y Villar, Henry Clay, La Meridiana, La Vencedora, La Carolina) turned out by companies affiliated with American Tobacco Co. Cause of this was not competition of cheaper brands, including American Tobacco's 5? Cremo ("Spit is a horrid word!"), but economies made possible by moving the factories from Havana to Trenton, N. J. Although the Spanish-style factory at Trenton will not be completed for a month, 500 employes have been working in a temporary one, learning the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheaper Coronas | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Meanwhile distemper broke out among the widow's cats. Four died, leaving 36 tomcats to snarl, spit, scream and wail from the Dornsife's domicile at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Months' Ducking | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...course, speaking figuratively. His mind was dimly echoing a name once famed in Chicago, "Heinie Keboobler." That was the name of two famed oldtime saloons -one on Quincy Street, one on South State. Both were full of practical-joking devices-stairways which suddenly folded under you, telephones that spit in your eye, rubber pretzels, dribble glasses, electric wiring to give a shock with your change at the bar or to the unwary in the lavatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Hunt (Cont'd) | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...retired till kingdom come. Pending that happy advent, however, the creator of Poictesme must find means to ease his very restless head. To combine retirement with activity he now speaks his mind through a ventriloqual figure. Branch Cabell, sheared of his Christian name, is in all other respects his spit and image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Fellows' Big Man | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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