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Laugher Walker. Meantime, Mayor Walker had left town. Having previously announced that he would take a vacation on Samuel Untermyer's estate at Palm Springs, Calif, the Mayor slipped out of his office, crossed to Jersey City to avoid prying eyes and newshawks, boarded a Baltimore & Ohio R. R. official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

To Anglo-Saxons such involved methods may seem unreal, but Russians have always enjoyed intrigue and devious means more than any other game. In the cities of New York, Chicago, Washington, etc. the G. P. U. is believed to maintain numerous agents, and is believed to believe that they find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Gay-pay-oo | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Lucy ("Aunt Lucy") Stewart Knox, 93, grandmother of Cinemactress Anita Stewart; in Brooklyn, N. Y. A friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

The fact that Mr. Bulkley was breaking three important rules (Nos. i, 6 and 7) for presidential aspirants, was interesting, and Mr. Bulkley himself is at this time interesting, only because a dozen or more other gentlemen in both parties are at this time studying the rules with care, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How It's Done | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Secretary Mellon was no man to rest on these fiscal laurels. Interest on the public debt is a major item of Federal expense. To reduce that interest, to get the cheapest loans possible is the eternal duty of a vigilant Treasury Secretary. Therefore last week Secretary Mellon announced that his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Hard Times Profit | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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