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There was a big war conference last week on the Rapidan. To his mountain camp President Hoover took Secretary Hurley, Assistant Secretary Payne, Chief of Staff MacArthur, Chief of Engineers Brown, Quartermaster General De Witt and Congressman Will Wood (appropriations). The President ushered them into a room by themselves, told them they had to find ways & means of cutting Army costs. While they pondered snipping and trimming the military establishment, the President went outside, sat down under a tree, worked over the rough draft of the address he will give at Valley Forge on Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: War Conference | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Texas voted against Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. And never before in history has a Prince of Rome been asked to address a State legislative body in the South. The affecting nature of these facts was clearly reflected upon Cardinal Hayes's face when Lieut.-Governor Edward Witt (a Baptist) conducted the State's guest to the chair of the President of the Senate. The cardinal's mental and emotional condition was further revealed and transmitted to his audience when he began a speech which at times, swelling with contagious exaltation, brimmed over. Ordinarily a clear, cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roman Senator | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...large family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle of Eros' motion with relation to Earth is 81 years. In 1975 it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planet Plans | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bulls to Ballyhoo | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Blair 3L, T. H. Eliot 2L, P. H. Gibson 3L, B. M. Goodman 3L, S. S. Tanney 2L, T. F. King 3L, D. T. Maxwell 3L, T. D. Merriam 3L, Norman Newmaek 3L, T. H. Nichols 2L, T. B. Shea 3L, David Shea 3L, R. A. Warren 3L, Nathan Witt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In The Graduate Schools | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

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