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Next day Mrs. Ronald Copeland from Stoke-on-Trent tried again, this time with Sir John Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arms' Week | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust," he is President Roosevelt's closest, most intimate adviser. The President calls him "Ray." He calls the President "Governor." His job was not only to stoke the discussions with facts & figures but also to note and catalog each foreign viewpoint as it was expounded by one statesman after another from the black couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Couch & Coach | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...proposed, the restrictions are petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students | 9/29/1932 | See Source »

...yard breast stoke-won by weeks (P); second, Milter (P); third, G. C. Larcom '33 Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMING TEAM SINKS PENNSYLVANIANS 43-28 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Deluge | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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