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...stood," said Leader Baldwin in conclusion. "The Conservative policy will be one of rigid economy. We ask for a free hand in the safeguarding of industries. Our agricultural policy has been favorably received. We stand for the close economic unity of the empire. As for the Napoleons of Fleet Street, I accept their challenge. I call their bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sheep Dog at Bay | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: St. Paul's Restored | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting elements in the city's cab business: the driver, the owner-driver, the fleet owner, the company operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taxi! | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Sirs: Will TIME kindly report the greatest flight- as to number in air at one time-of airplanes on record? See TIME, p. 12, issue of May 19, third column, last sentence: "Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half-mile flags. Yale had almost a one-length lead here and was rowing more easily than Harvard. Now and then the Harvard shell swerved a little in its chase as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harvard-Yale | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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