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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other walks of life, it is a case of divided to fall, united to stand. Given enough rope, enough cooperation, enough seasoned catch-words, and the hardened suicide can live through any system fabricated. Show a few gentlemen C's, worn with just a touch of the Gentleman Ranker and the Spree, and membership to the Federation of Non-Labor is free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENOUGH ROPE | 4/23/1931 | See Source »

Angry as a gentleman and a Conservative can be-and that is very angry-Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill wrote a letter last week to the leader of his party, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, with whom he recently came to a partial break on the St. Gandhi issue (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No. 2 by No. 2 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...should prefer that you should succeed in being in all things a gentleman, according to the real meaning of the word, than that you should vastly increase the money value of the estate. Being a gentleman, you cannot fail to devote your whole mind and energy to the service of the plain people who constitute the vast majority of the people of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Last year a Miss Hedwig Hirsch of Philadelphia married an elderly little gentleman named Frederick Brinkmann, superintendent of an electrical company in Trenton, N. J. Fortnight ago Frederick Brinkmann lost his job, fled from his home. He was arrested in New York, taken to Philadelphia, charged with desertion and failure to support. Wearily, the prisoner confessed that he had a wife and two children in the West. The charge was changed to bigamy. Later he confessed further, said he was missing Banker Paul Wupper. To Sheriff M. L. Enders of Lincoln he sent a wire to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: End of a Banker | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Their son, Alexander ("Aleck") Henry Higginson is a famed foxhunter, divides his time between his 400-acre farm in South Lin- coln, Mass, and England where he is a Master of the Cattistock Hunt. His son, Henry Lee Higginson, is also a gentleman of leisure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Major | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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