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With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bottom | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

His many prints of ships had been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Boy Franklin | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Californians trust Professor Lipman ("Lippy" to students). He is one of the most learned men at Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Universal Bacteria? | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

The dapper, slightly-stooped man who stood with a little black bag in his hand, ringing the elevator bell on the tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Vanderbilt one afternoon last week was nervous. Everything was in order in the room he had left. Trunks were packed with costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Curtain | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Little World Series, In Minneapolis, Col. Ruppert's Newark Bears, pennant winners in the International League, drew even in the Little World Series by winning the fourth game, 5 to 2, against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. The day before, four trunks containing Bear uniforms and equipment were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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