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Cocky as always, the little Welsh David chose to speak on St. David's Day, in a hall decked with crisp Welsh jonquils. "Stanley Baldwin reminds me," he chirped, "of a driver who finds his cart stuck in a rut and sits there smoking his pipe, saying 'Leave it to the horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...works in the attic of five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Valves, pipe fittings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strong Copper | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chase Securities, Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Co., E. F. Hutton, chairman of Postum Co., Inc. President is John H. Markham, Jr., head of the Exchange Bank of Tulsa, Okla., an independent oil opera tor. Petroleum Corp. will make its initial investments in Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line?the two oil companies whose Rockefeller holdings (TIME, Dec. 10) were recently purchased by Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Investment Trusts | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...from the steep sides of the Alban crater which contains the lake. One of them, the smaller, is certainly Caligula's. Treasure hunters since the 15th century have tried to raise the barge, un successfully and to its great damage. Some years ago one adventurer yanked loose a lead pipe. On it was an inscription which referred to Caligula. The float was decorated with marble, mosaics and carved woodwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvaging Caligula | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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