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Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Legislative Hobby: refining the law. He is vigilant in advising the Senate when legislative precedents are apt to be established. His bills have been of legal nature, or else pertaining to the oil scandal. One of the latter allowed Oilman Henry M. Blackmer, of Denver, to be subpenaed abroad and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

It's hard to decide what causes the delay. Presumably the games started at the same time as in other years and it is safe to believe that the sun is not setting ahead of schedule. The sole reason, therefore, seems to be that the games took longer to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crepuscular Cavorting | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

In fact I suspect every generation in its later days so regards the period of its ascendancy. For instance, there is the classic of the early days of the Military Academy when the Commandant of Cadets was reported to the Superintendent for throwing stones at the Corps of Cadets. I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Army Graduate Reminisces on Point Traditions and Experiences | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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