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President Hoover has seen and suffered too many false starts toward recovery. Therefore last week he eschewed all predictions, all speculations as to whether the things that now made him happy marked a definite turn in the economic tide or not. It was, at least, a breathing spell. What helped to add to the President's sense of happy relief was the good progress being made by his National Credit Corp. and public response to his nation-wide campaign for Unemployment Relief funds, locally collected and expended. To the San Francisco community chest drive the President sent his check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: I Am Happy | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...suggestion is the following, based on a familiar type, the "spell-it out type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Pass it Along | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...Besides their military titles, Col. William Franklin Knox and Col. Guy T. Visk-niskki have three things in common: Both served in the Spanish-American War, both became high-ranking Hearstmen, both spell "economy" in large capitals. Last week Col. Viskniskki resigned as general manager of Star Co., technical publishers of Hearst's New York American and Journal, to become business manager of Col. Knox's newly purchased Chicago Daily News. In the War, Col. Viskniskki was for a time officer in charge of The Stars & Stripes, A. E. F. newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Fortune | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...accurate predictions I have made the last two days I feel positive that the feeling I have had throughout the World Series--namely, that the Cardinals would win--will come true. Burleigh Grimes should pitch a 3 to 1 victory over Earnshaw today, thus breaking the American League spell...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: ORIENTAL SAGE PREDICTS CRIMSON, CARDINAL TRIUMPH | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Empress Eugenie Again | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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