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Adams' Wife- They needed threshers on Jim Adams' Kansas farm when a city fellow named Peter Barrett (Eric Dressier) drifted in from the East. Jim Adams (Victor Kilian) liked the boy. took him into his family. Jim's wife Jennie (Sylvia Field) had already lost one baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

"Any large power can get a long way in war nowadays without anyone being able to interfere to any extent because modern warfare means complete destruction of cities and their whole population. It would be the easiest thing in the world for a large air fleet to wipe out a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. B. HART DERIDES LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR HELPLESSNESS | 1/5/1932 | See Source »

When William Marcy Tweed bossed Tammany Hall and New York City, political livelihoods were made by out-&-out peculation. Boss Charles Francis Murphy brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. But fashions in municipal graft change. Nowadays Tammany feeds largely on the real estate and building businesses. How...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Al Smith's Friend's Firm | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Not many Princeton men become preachers nowadays, and of the few who do, fewer still are regarded as "regular fellows" by their classmates. In Princeton's Class of 1920, however, was a Canadian preacher's son whose popularity was immense, yet who surprised few of his friends when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For 21 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Lean Cornish spatfalls will have no appreciable effect on Edward of Wales's income. Beside the Cornish oyster beds, H. R. H. receives the entire income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a thoughtful provision made by Edward III in 1337. Nowadays the gross income is about $1,250,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wales's Lean Spatfalls | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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