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...slot-doorbell-that was what frugal Dutch huisfronwen were having carpenters install last week beside their furiously polished brass doorknobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Game of Go Bong! | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...regarded in Germany and Russia as one of the foremost U. S. writers. Slight of frame, professorial, bespectacled, Author Sinclair lives in Pasadena, whence issue tirelessly books, propaganda, publicity, both Socialist and person. He has the smile of a fanatic. Other books: The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, The Brass Check, The Goose-Step, Boston, Singing Jailbirds (a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclairity | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Berlin. A squad of police met up with a band of "demonstrators" armed with knives and brass knuckles, laid about them with their gummi knüppel (rubber clubs), grievously injured one. In the west-Prussian town of Halle, Communists opened fire on the police, who retaliated in kind, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Thursday | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...Great Falls, Mont., Art Leweke got rid of a hungry golden eagle by tying to its tail a toy balloon, a brass bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sneezer's Chance | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

Advertisement Distinguished for its Effective Use of Typography ($1,000)-won by Kenyon & Eckhardt Inc. (Manhattan), for their Revere Copper & Brass Inc. double-page magazine spread: "The Smoke Marks Paul Revere's Foundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard Awards | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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