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...gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Three Men on a Rope | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Paul is 84. By refusing to run again for President he would doubtless prolong a life which his big red country house and his rosy-cheeked, laughing grandchildren make pleasant. Most Germans, when they learned that Old Paul had consented to run again, felt a tug at their heartstrings. They assumed that if re-elected on March 13 President von Hindenburg will die in office. If he lived out his second term he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nominations | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...ambition" said Fred Allen, one of the three leading stars in "Three's a Crowd," is to see two dwarfs having a tug-of-war with a piece of dental floss." When asked to explain this statement Mr. Allen merely shrugged and said, "you asked the question: and there is a straight and honest answer, what mere do you want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Allen Has Yen to See Two Dwarfs in Tug-of-War With Piece of Dental Floss--Fascinated by Stimson's Mustache | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

...agreed throughout the system that no one works harder on the B. & O. than President Willard. He gets up early, works late. Once he told Jim, porter of his office car, No. gg, to wake him at 5 a. m. As the dawn was breaking, the blackamoor felt a tug at his covers, looked up into "Uncle Dan's" smiling face. "Wake up, Jim," said President Willard. "It's 5 o'clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Work, Wages & Willard | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Signer Grandi's reception. A plan to have him flown from New York harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Eye to Eye | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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