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...sting-minded as any hornet last week was Edouard Daladier, stocky, pugnacious president of the Radical Socialist party, who almost managed to form a cabinet fortnight ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...ball twice. Thus she broke a woman's record for St. Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...direction of Coach Stubbs. Where Yale boasted more and more brilliant individual performers, Harvard presented a game based on lines of sound coaching which checked and smothered the Yale speed. Especially notable was the Harvard defense method of meeting the attack at center ice and taking its sting before it was near the goal. It is such achievements as this, in the face of dubious odds, that bring home forcibly the fact that the University sport teams are guided by men who know their business. The second trial of hockey strength between the teams will be watched more eagerly because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TEAM AND THE COACH | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Offending the Negro politicians will never do, for their power at the nominating convention of 1932 may be as great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P., South | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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