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Amid the cheers of the crowd, sounded a royal wail from Her Highness: "I didn't mean to do it, maman! I didn't mean to make the boat go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Boat Tears | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Jewish-Arab situation in Palestine was destined to cause much angry protesting oratory in Cleveland this week. Last summer discontented Arabs rioted and massacred Jews in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, authentic, revered remnant of Solomon's Temple, and in outlying communities (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq ). An explanation of the Arab discontent appeared last week, by Hadji Aminal Husseini, Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Moslem Council, chief religious and temporal leader of Palestine Arabs Jews buy land, leaving Arabs homeless. Abnormal Jewish immigration forces Arabs out of work. (Great Britain recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionists | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...library are renewed, and the result has been a better ordered life than formerly. The strain and pressure of the business world is to some extent counterbalanced. Finally, the benefit to the college itself, to its morale, its purpose, can not be minimized. Too often have those who wail against hilarious alumni and the general problem which they create failed to realize that in most cases the colleges have offered them nothing but athletic events as the connecting link with alma mater. This being the case, the college as well as the alumni has suffered. With alumni colleges coming into...

Author: By In "school and Thomas W. Pomeroy jr., S | Title: Teaching the Old Dog | 6/19/1930 | See Source »

Although a woman partner of a firm is rare, Wail Street and Women have recently become more familiar. For the most part, Wall Street Women occupy positions as customers women, bond specialists, contact getters, sometimes astrologers. Few have gone higher, fewer remained higher. Last week grief came to a woman who claims to have been the first to enter the brokerage business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Women on Wall Street | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...wail exemplified in today's Press, arises from the down-trodden masses of females who inhabit the college on the other side of the Common. Man, with his brutal instincts, has shoved cowering womankind from her place in the sun. While Harvard, heralded far and wide as the innovator of the House Plan, has swelled triumphantly, somebody has tried to prick the bubble by cracking the old one of "I've heard that before." After patiently enduring the quips and cranks of newspapers' showering encomium on Harvard, the demure and reticent damsels of Radcliffe have determined to toot their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIDENS LAMENT | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

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