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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Porcellian ("Pork") Club, oldest (1790) of Harvard's "finals," was founded by undergraduates who sat around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...other country is so much ot the national wealth concentrated in so few hands. Japanese know that control of virtually all banking, Japanese foreign trade & shipping, domestic industry, insurance and even Japanese department stores is closely held by five so-called "Merchant Empires" owned by the Japanese families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura. These families have continued to wax rich during a decade of deepening Japanese depression. Every Japanese knows that their wealth has fostered corruption of both leading political parties, the Seiyukai and Minseito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Saionji to the Rescue? | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when she attempted to fly the Atlantic with Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...apply the Communist maxim "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Today Russia is back on a money and piecework basis, but is not back on a Capitalist basis, the distinction being that no private employer is permitted to amass any considerable wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Big Zag | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...flabbergasted when Dr. Jacob Daniel Brook, 56, county health officer of Grandville, Mich., rose up in the House of Delegates and proposed a resolution on Birth Control. Let the A. M. A., urged Dr. Brook, appoint a committee to spend one year pondering the effects of contraception on health, wealth, morals, happiness. Dozens of physicians leaped from their seats to shout pro & con on the long suppressed topic. Retiring President Edward Starr Judd cleverly put discussion over to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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