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...months ago Publisher Macfadden tried a new tack. He took personal charge, essayed a comparative clean-up of the sheet, hired a Harvard man as manager. Also, because he was feeling more than ever the drain upon his purse, he called upon his employes to take a pay cut by buying stock (TIME, June 20). But it was too late...
...peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition was definitely art-conscious. The Master Plumbers claimed that their "glorification of the unmentionable" had evolved a "new conception" of the bathroom. The New Bathroom is designed 1) to dress in; 2) to keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed...
...turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety-Six, S. C. When he set out to "clean up the G. 0. P., South" in 1929. President Hoover laid his political curse on the Tolbert regime in South Carolina, favoring instead the J. C. Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert & delegates (TIME, June 20). After the Credentials Committee's decision was read...
...time has come," said he. "when the question must be met. I represent a group of states that desire Repeal. . . . All we ask is that you give the people a chance to come clear, to come clean, and not give them a plank that no one can understand. . . . We adopted the 18th Amendment to win the War. Let us repeal it to win the Depression...
Soldiers Field this spring has presented a somewhat melancholy picture to those who still stir at the sound of a clean single. And the contrast was tremendously noticeable yesterday, when the bleachers were filled not only with fathers, but with daughters, mothers, and brothers, all slowly burning in the warm sun. The Graduates make their own Cambridge these days, when the Seniors are in the height of their glory, quite removed from the brown-hatted individuals who but yesterday were complaining of divisionals. And in a few days more, after the center of affairs has drifted away...