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...bread that was whiter, Or rolls that were lighter, Than those that they serve you at Ronda

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanish Song | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week Kathryn Lewis' face, bare of rouge and lipstick, adamant against press photographers, was whiter, more tired than usual. Waiting by a telephone, she breathed: "I do, do hope they'll settle." They were her father, his United Mine Workers lieutenants and a committee of bituminous coal operators who, off & on since Feb. 17 in Manhattan, had been negotiating a new two-year working contract to replace the one expiring midnight March 31. That deadline had already passed without agreement as Kathryn Lewis talked, and in twelve States some 400,000 men had laid down their tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pay Up, Price Up | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...means had Judge Ritter or his attorneys of keeping track of the votes. As it became apparent that there were more "guilty" than "not guilty" votes, Judge Ritter's face went whiter than ever. Finally Senator Pittman announced: "On the first article of impeachment 55 Senators have voted 'guilty' and 29 Senators have voted 'not guilty.' Less than two-thirds of the members present having voted 'guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Highest Duty | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Western subjects, Mr. Chapman achieved fame through his lines: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That's where the West begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1935 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...speaker was a young Governor named Alfred Emanuel Smith, serving his first term. Referring to Publisher Hearst, Governor Smith began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press in the history of this country." After 30 angry minutes of denunciation, Governor Smith wound up by urging the people of "this city, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Publisher on Presidency | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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