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...slender, rusty-haired Calvin Coolidge was there at college, a class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...investigation disclosed that the New England Bureau of Public Service Information, maintained by gas, electric and other utilities, and located in Boston, sent out in one year propaganda to 289 schools in New England. The literature bore the slogan. "For use of school students, English, current topics, and debating classes." Since the investigation this slogan has been removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL RECEIVES $90,000 FROM UTILITIES | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Marks at South bore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COWLES CUTS FRESHMAN TENNIS SQUAD TO 17 MEN | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...years, baseball passes have been given to the President. The 54th was last week handed by John Heydler, President of the National League, to President Hoover. As usual, it was No. 1, bore the U. S. seal. Unlike all others, it was in an elephant hide case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Workingmen | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...president had unquestionably "packed" the congress, its actions surprised no one. In Canton yet another military clique, composed of colleagues of General Li, swore vengeance on account of his execution or imprisonment-without knowing which had occurred-moved to join the Wuhan revolt. As Marshal Chiang and his army bore southward upon the rebel areas, the Cantonese colleagues of General Li forgot their indignation and made a neat right-about, in the famed manner of Chinese generals, loudly proclaiming allegiance to President Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wu's Coup de Corde | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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