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...plaintiff's refusal and an unsuccessful attempt by the usher to put him out, a police officer did so. Mrs. Saltoncabot followed. Outside the Stadium, but inside Soldiers Field, the head usher, Caroll Cetchell, was standing. He hissed to the plaintiff and his wife, gesturing with his thumb toward the gate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

Also last week the Treasury imposed higher anti-dumping duties on electric light bulbs and sneakers from Japan, celluloid-covered thumb tacks from Germany, saponified stearic acid from The Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Square Pegs & Round Pits | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...Thumb and little finger touch across the palm while the three other finders are held straight. †The Geneva World Conference for Reduction and Limitation of Armaments also adjourned without substantial achievement (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Fourth Jamboree | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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