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...pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), born 39 years ago in Los Angeles. Charming but not brilliant, Mârouf might have caused no great stir had not the cover of its program been drawn by one of California's authentic Personages, Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moody Squiggles | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Invasion. Because he has all the economic conservatism of a poor boy who has become a rich man, Governor Sterling was hesitant about grappling the cotton situation Governor Long had tossed to him. For a week he hemmed & hawed. From Louisiana, Governor Long tried to stir him into action by radio appeals to Texas planters. Resentful of this political invasion, Governor Sterling exploded: "Huey Long's not running Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers who supposed the interviews to be authentic. "Coin's Financial School" created such a stir that parades were held in the East to combat its heterodox influence. It was upon this silver issue, as popularized by Harvey, that William Jennings Bryan was nominated and defeated for the Presidency in 1896. Harvey worshipped Bryan, stumped the Midwest for him, antagonized good Democratic audiences by going wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: First Nomination | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Charles Stewart Mott leads all others by a margin so great as to stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Who Holds GM | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...occasion gave excuse for a tremendous social stir. A bustling series of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and balls was organized. Chief organizer was grey-haired but vivacious Mrs. Lucy Blair Linn, cousin of Col. McCormick, wife of a Chicago stockbroker. To facilitate conversation, she sent around Spanish-English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chicago Polo | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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