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...indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin in Russia-General Secretary of the Party-arrived home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Party's Party | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...warmed over from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Dancers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...clowning Ritz Brothers the opportunity to extract the last zany twist from such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable numbers are the title song, Please Pardon Us, We're in Love, and Danger, Love at Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...committee during the Washington hearings on the Van Sweringen empire. Through all holding companies which have been, or would be, segregated or eliminated on completion of the Alleghany-Chesapeake merger, Mr. Young had drawn heavy black lines. Crossed out were 17 non-railroad holding companies and Midamerica Corp., the tiptop unit set up by Mr. Ball. Today The Chesapeake Corp. owns about 35.5% of the stock of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., and Alleghany owns 71% of the stock of The Chesapeake Corp. After the merger new Chesapeake Corp. will be the holding company for all the railroad properties, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babes Out of Woods | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...tiptop," said the Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Going Places | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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