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...which the trip will be composed of seven pieces, and will make two complete trips over and back, which wil consume the larger part of four weeks. Roy Lamson will not make the trip, however, but will remain with another unit of his orchestra which plays regularly at the Fo'cas'le at the Hotel Rockmere in Marblehead. The first boatload for which the Harvardians will furnish music and entertainment sails from New York on Wednesday. When the ship reaches England, the orchestra will scout-around and see if they can pick up a contract for later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARDIANS ARE TO ENLIVEN THE LEVIATHAN | 6/5/1930 | See Source »

...increases production cost, is already discounted in the market price. No less stoutly the other group holds that the weevil is really a disguised blessing, "the best thing that evuh happened to the South, Suh! Why, if it weren't for boll weevil, Cotton would be selling for fo' cents a pound right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: King Cotton's Curse | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hodge Podge | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...glad our seats are down heab!...Ah simply adoah watchin' football games...don't you?...Oh no! Ah'm not like the rest of these women heah, Ah don't wanna talk...Ah reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward kicks, an field passes 'n' things...Oh is that wheah the Ahmy is sittin'?'...Sho' nuf'?...Ah'm so excited...Ah love the Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One of Wellesley's Representatives From the South Airs Her Views on Army and Harvard--Scorns Brass Buttons | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works to cost the breath-taking sum of 12 billion 500 million dollars. Bold and ten times bold, this scheme would commit the fledgling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Gaudy Dreams | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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