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...even wise Dr. Jackson could resist a long toot on the horn of international brotherhood. Last week he joined Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, able Manhattan dermatologist and Director-General of the Association, in calling the cruise "a dramatic and remarkably successful step in the establishment of permanent goodwill between the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors at Sea | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Joseph Edmund Sterrett, partner in Price, Waterhouse & Co. (accountants), Dawes Plan expert, at Redding Ridge, Conn. Built in 1911 for the late William Luttgen, Morgan partner and commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the estate contains a chain of ponds through which the old commodore used to toot proudly but briefly in a miniature steam yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Show Boat | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Toot! toot! the Duke of Zaragoza used to blow the locomotive whistle of Spam's Royal Train, for His Grace was Hereditary Engineer to the Royal Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Wheels Go Round | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Merrily last week Spain's Presidential Train chuffed from Valencia to Madrid carrying President Alcala Zamora, driven by the Duke of Zaragoza with many a toot! toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Wheels Go Round | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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