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...plank of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune Program for America is: "Restore Constitutional Government to Rhode Island." To Democrats in this tiniest of States the plank is decidedly distasteful. For many years they have unsuccessfully bucked: 1) the Rhode Island constitution; 2) the stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Democracy Downed | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...studio last week. There was a spectroscopic contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Make-Up Man | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...second place in favor of politics, it has been rather hard to crowd Mr. Hoover out of the picture. In fact, so far no one has had the temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot be pierced with toothpicks and up to the present only the very tiniest and bluntest splinters have been used. Now that Ohio Republicans have substituted a battering ram we can hope that Mr. Hoover will gracefully accept the increasingly obvious fact that many Republicans would not choose him as their leader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE GREAT ENGINEER" | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

...world's tiniest sewing machine cost Collector Charbneau ten times the price of a regular full-sized one. It was made by Schoolboy Henry Nelson and Jeweler Ted Brown of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Littlest Lot | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Third was the two-coach procession of learned Sankey, the Lord High Chancellor, who outranks the Prime Minister. Fourth was the procession of the tiniest London Lord Mayor in history, Sir Stephen Killik perched froglike on a seat in the Lord Mayor's Coach especially heightened so that he could be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jolly Good George | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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