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...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: On the Luneta | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress, he was quoted in the New York Sun as saying that he never forgot a name, that he never failed to shake a hand thrust out at him, that he never failed to answer a letter, and that his personal correspondence had been known to exceed twenty thousand letters annually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...pause. Let us now change our beaming faces from a smile of loyalty to deeply furrowed frowns. Let us shake our heads and hold up a finger pregnant with remonstrance. Where is the American Flag in Cambridge? Plainly and simply-nowhere. Hardly the embers of patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTISM IN COLLEGE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wagon-Cooks | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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