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Last week he fractured presidential tradition by having a telephone placed at his elbow. All other Presidents had gone to an adjoining room to telephone, which they rarely did. Now President Hoover calls up his Cabinet members who respond with a brisk "Yes, Mr. President." By this method they are saved time-wasting journeys to the White House...
Potter Poor justifies his exacting process by showing that it necessitates brisk, simple design−''the subordination of technique"−and produces "depth and brilliance of color." The resulting ornaments−leaves, flowers, nude figures, abstract patterns−are so sketchy that the temptation is to call them naive. They are the simplification of form to only the essential contours, graceful and spontaneous. They are not precise and intricate geometry...
Trading in election futures was brisk, last week, on the Royal Exchange. Such trading, Englishmen like to think, is not "betting on the election." Certainly the thing is done in London with a flair and a nice decorum equaled nowhere else on earth. Indeed most U. S. citizens would find themselves flabbergasted if asked to devise the machinery for placing bets on an election which has so many queer features (General Parliamentary Election, TIME...
Short, stocky, chesty Editor Long, radiating success and brisk efficiency, had reason to be pleased; and more, perhaps, than Mr. Coolidge realized. Had not the President said to persistent Editor Long: "Yes, when you pay 35 cents for a magazine, that magazine takes on in your eyes the nature of a book and you treat it accordingly."? Editor Long reproduced this incomparable "blurb" in full page newspaper advertisements...
...though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish evidences of approaching motherhood supplied additional market with which the Bryant stores are now most prominently associated. They have, indeed, made a further extension and now do a brisk trade in layettes...