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In towns with English mayors, the mayors were allowed to welcome the wagons only on sufferance. Jewish mayors were rudely told to keep away. Finally even the pro-Boer South African Broadcasting Corp. was obliged to censor speeches. Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Beards and Beatings | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Beards and Beatings | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Scrubbed annually and painted in alternate years, the white subterranean walls are spotless. To further insure cleanliness, food is conveyed in covered food-wagons, along constantly mopped floors.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunnels Between House Dining Halls Comprise Underworld of University | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

On his 83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Harry Stutz died in 1934. That year Stutz Motor Car Co. made just six cars. It borrowed1 $266,000 from RFC., At last, as a final indignity, it started making door-to-door delivery wagons for butchers and bakers instead of low, fast, flashy cars for racing drivers, and "Bearcats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Going, Going, Gone | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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