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...Finest fruit of that co-operation now lay before the President, the vast Industrial Recovery Act. The President signed with a vim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Signings | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Incredible Kingfish | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Undaunted by falling heir to this exhibit in comparative architecture, Associate Professor Baxter, with a vim and vigor worthy of his native Granite state, has set about to give one and all a good time. And he does. All is well organized; a neat little circulars advises all members about identification cards, how to make complaints about the food, how much the four guest rooms cost, and how all-pervasive are the parietal rules, which the Faculty has been meditating without result for the last six months. The swimming pool, a relic of Gold Coast days, and Adams' pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: ADAMS HOUSE | 3/16/1932 | See Source »

With Unemployment now at a pitch where the President of the U. S. has had to appoint a special commissioner (Col. Arthur Woods) to work on it, with Democrats full of fresh vim and courage after their party's November victory, it was certain that Democrat Wagner's would figure early and large in the legislative maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Jobholders' Meeting | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...trunks full of documents waited outside the courtroom doors during later sessions. They were evidences in the challenging of proxies, which the Eaton lawyers went about with great vim & vigor. After challenging proxies for a total of 128,400 shares in one day, the Eaton forces declared that they were ready to challenge "thousands more" even hinted at attacking the constitutionality of the Ohio corporation code under which the merger was ratified. The $800,000 loan by Bethlehem to Cleveland's Pickands, Mather & Co. for the purpose of buying Youngstown stock, which has been the King Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Suits | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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