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...business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods show his customers how to use the floor polishing material. He disliked that, let the business go to pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technocrat | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark. Germany still will not let him cross her frontiers. France and Italy cannot be expected to exert themselves unduly should either White Russians or Stalin Communists take pot shots at the onetime Red War Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trotsky, Lubinsky & Bronstein | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Coffee Pot, the informal discussion group of Kirkland House, will have as its subject tonight a consideration of the relative merits of the classics and the sciences. Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek, will speak for the classics, while Roderick Macdonald, assistant professor of Biology, will give the argument for the sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/23/1932 | See Source »

...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driftwood | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britons & Ships | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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