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...Spring being in the air, the President went windowshopping on F Street without his overcoat. A sample of some goods, sent by the owner of a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass., with an offer to furnish enough free material to make the President an inauguration suit, was returned with the remark that the President liked the material and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli's favorite wives, perched on Spanish mules and attended by three armed and terrifying Negro eunuchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Captured | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

Thirty-five years ago, Charles R. Elint began his lifelong habit of forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coal Merger? | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...When I was still a young boy I was bitten by the stage bug", Mr. Stone admitted, "and I started my career in my father's barn on our ranch in Colorado arrayed in a red flannel shirt and red woolen under-drawers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRED STONE BEGAN BEING SERIOUSLY FUNNY IN BARN | 11/14/1924 | See Source »

...enable farmers to detect it. ¶The Ketcham Bill to authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth-in-Fabric Bill, requiring the branding of woolen goods to show the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, silk, or other fibre in the fabric. A bill of this general type has been before Congress for 22 years. ¶The Purnell Bill to supply the Department of Agriculture with funds to further agricultural experimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: What They Want | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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