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Small storekeepers, craftsmen and farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: New 12% Cabinet | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

The Exchange dates from 1882 when 19 brokers organized it with provisions for six other memberships at $50 each. Its first title was just "The Stock and Bond Exchange." later "San Francisco" was added, and 1927 the present title of "San Francisco Stock Exchange" was purchased from what is now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Quarter | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

The Story. The three "tales" in this little book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

While Ohio politicians droned through the last General Assembly at Columbus, newspaper reporters, alert or phlegmatic, hung over the rail of the press gallery. After each session, readers were told of whatever interesting governmental action their duly elected representatives had taken. Somehow the journalists were completely unaware of an amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleet Street Flayed | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

In Stamford, Conn., Paul Eckstein, 20 months old, and Edward Eckstein, 3, were playing on the floor. "Bump!" cried Edward Eckstein. They gurgled, bumped their heads together. Five minutes later, Paul Eckstein grew drowsy. Several hours later he died of a fractured skull.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Perfect | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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