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...always been customary for all Ministers and Ambassadors to tender their resignations to an incoming President. But the increasingly numerous and important "career" diplomats, who have earned the rank of Minister after long and meritorious service, might well feel differently about getting out than would politically-appointed Ambassadors, party henchmen, "lame ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...FLIGHTS UP-Mary Roberts Rine-hart-Doubleday Doran ($2.) Connoisseurs of mystery stories-a great many of both have cropped up in the last decade -prefer them undiluted with the tender passion. Though Author Rinehart knows how to write a mystery story (The Amazing Interlude, The Red Lamp), and her sons* know how to publish them, she indulges in dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spineless Heroine | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...electorate would be kept below the sums spent in other years by the G. O. P.-$5,300,000 for Harding-Coolidge, $3,000,000 for Coolidge-Dawes. Stated reason: "We have candidates who will not need so large a sum." In Chicago, on his way to tender his respects and his resignation from the Coolidge cabinet, Dr. Work announced that there would be no campaign headquarters west of Chicago. "It won't be needed," he said. "The West is all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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