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...papers he wobbled between the Republican and Democratic parties. In 1928 Hoover was his candidate. In 1932 it was Roosevelt. A man of position and polish, Publisher Bingham now sits on the board of a bank, a railroad, a creosoting company. He has a married son living in Scotland whither he goes grouse-shooting every August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Roosevelt's Ten | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eight-Inch Cups | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Technocracy. To theorists like Messrs. Rautenstrauch, Jones, Ackerman and Chase, technocracy is a serious effort to collate facts which may show whither industrial civilization is moving. To thousands of discontented technicians employed (or discharged) by oil. lumber, automotive and other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technocrat | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...marathon. During two hours of football, the ball is actually in motion only eight minutes. In that time the player burns up energy at top speed. Researchers Wood and Edwards discovered that the average leucocyte increase is nearly 300%. But whence the leucocytes come and whither they go, no man knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Football & Leucocytes | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Bolting the rest of his breakfast Secretary Stimson sped to the White House whither President Hoover hastily summoned his other bower, Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Out came the British note and for two hours the three hunched over the President's desk pondering what Britain's whole Cabinet had painstakingly written at Downing Street earlier in the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debts, Disarmament & Davis | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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