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Long-nosed Viceroy Lord Willingdon took time off from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lloyd Barrage | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

William Warrender Mackenzie, first Baron Amulree of Strathbraan, is Britain's foremost inquirer. He has investigated piece rates, trades disputes, industrial unrest, night baking, strikes, women in in- dustry, the wreck of the R-101 (TIME. Oct. 13, 1930). For two years he has been chairman of the Royal Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Drink Report | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

This unique trophy, a white china mug of generous size, first appeared last spring in the Lowell House common room, with an accompanying message to the effect that the unknown donors wished thereby to commemorate the undefeated season of the Lowell House oarsmen, who had nosed out five different crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS FROM THE HOUSES | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

With victory resting on the outcome of the last of the 24 games which constituted the "H.Y.P.D." College Chess League tourney, the Crimson players were nosed out by a strong Princeton chess team at the clubhouse of the Marshall Chess Club, 23 West Tenth Street, New York, during the vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON LOSES CHESS TOURNEY TO PRINCETON | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

On complaints of Manhattan socialites whose names were withheld, offices of both magazines were raided on the same afternoon. At Town Topics (founded 1878 by the brother of its notorious long-time publisher, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann) detectives found themselves stopped by a blank wall and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: We Boys | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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