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...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...private ocean, 100 miles from the seashore, are the least of the drains on International Salt's mines and evaporating plants. Next in order of unimportance is the production of table salt. Major uses of salt are found in the curing of hides, manufacture of soap, paper, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Doubtless, the President, a man of much sly humor, was pleased with the country's surprise. He knew that as people began to learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secretary Whiting | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...lose the track events, with few exceptions. "Our boys are overtrained; the Amsterdam track is slow," said U. S. coaches. The London Evening Standard seized upon this situation, an opportunity to run a story attributing the sad plight of U. S. runners to the eating of too much ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking wet in ten minutes. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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