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When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix, "The Hon."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Homeward Bound | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Eighty thousand pounds-and yet by the merest chance had Martin Barnes, commercial traveler, strolled out of his shabby hotel, and past the strange old house. But Lord Ardrington, on the point of death, was contemptuous alike of charities and his rightful heir, and chose therefore to bestow the ?80...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suave Agility | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

There is one other man in the field, however, and that is Norman Thomas. He is the Socialist candidate for president, and in him is centered a movement toward a definite, worthwhile goal. He is the rightful heir to the LaFollette movement of four years ago; and we know that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas for President | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Exhorted E. S. Shoaf, manager of the Jennings, La., Chamber of Commerce: "Rice, which is the principal food of more than one-third of the world's population, does not occupy its rightful place on the menu of the American family simply because rice-growers and millers have not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rice Campaign | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

When Sarwat fell, the majority party (Nationalist or Wafd) once more set up the rightful majority claim of its leader, Nahass Pasha, to be called to the Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Experimental Cabinet | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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