Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue to Agha's American Decade. Its "paeans with pictures from colleagues and disciples" demonstrated how great has been, still is Dr. Agha's influence on U. S. publication design...
...slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he was still in Germany, he had twice returned to U. S. jurisdiction, had twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape in 1920. But the court pointed out that he had escaped while the U. S. was technically at war, and there is no statute of limitations...
...blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony...
...rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference whether it "is still the Methodist Protestant conference, or is it now a Methodist conference?" Informed that it was the latter, the 16 arose, marched out of the room singing Blessed Assurance, whose chorus goes: This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long...
...Gates showed that he believes in flexible prices-on the up side. He posted a price of 12½?, panicked consumers to come back into the market for more inventory. Reluctantly Kennecott and Anaconda, both with lower costs han Phelps Dodge, followed the price up, while frightened consumers bought still more. Small copper fabricators, worried, ike small steelmen, about the rising price and shortened supplies of their raw material, began to exert political pressure on Washington to halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper market by bringing 6 to 8? Chilean and Canadian Copper...