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(6 of 7) on the U. S. scene. Mercury to the masses, purveyor of cheap speed on land and in the air, his spectacular rise has been accomplished in the 15 years since he was a Moon auto salesman in Chicago with a $35 weekly drawing-account. So many Moons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Farley's Deal | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

In the bitter seriousness of these young people lies their chief menace to the world. Never much given to the sort of sane nonsense that so often appears among American undergraduates, they are deprived of the counterbalancing influence of such pranks as that of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

Though she kept her scholastic standards high, tall, energetic, forceful Miss Chapin was equally intent on giving her future social leaders character and poise. To that end she kept a hawklike watch over their lives, both in & out of school, developing an organization and discipline rivalling West Point's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Death of Miss Chapin | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Edward E. Brown, vice president of Chicago's First National Bank, has very touchingly complained that he and his brethren were unable to find a receiver for the Insull properties who could dominate Mr. Insull. All of the rugged, forceful men owed so much to Chicago banks that they were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/9/1934 | See Source »

L'Africaine. So did big Basso Emanuel List, an Austrian who twelve years ago was singing in Manhattan cinemansions. Basso List's deep, dark voice was admirably suited to the beards he wore as the Landgrave in Tannhaüser, as Hunding in Walküre. But big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debuts | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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