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University officials angrily refused to permit the White House press party to set up telegraph wires on the spot. So poor were the arrangements that some reporters accompanying the president could not squeeze into the hall. Veteran presidential companies can't recall when a chief executive was so thorough rebuffed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 10/24/1936 | See Source »

Squeezes. In the normal course of hedging operations the cotton merchant sells futures contracts short, but unlike the speculator he actually owns an equivalent amount of real cotton. As one contract matures, say July, he switches into another, say October, to keep his insurance in force. This switching makes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton & King | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Rhythm on the Range (Paramount) is a good-humoured, well-paced musicomedy in which Bing Crosby's nonchalant but thoroughly mellifluous barytone is pleasantly used to punctuate a mildly satiric investigation of the rodeo business. By entering every event at Madison Square Garden, Jeff Larabee manages to squeeze out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

In advance of their arrival, Pacification Commissioner General Yu got his hands on 300 Kwangtung fighting planes, two large arsenals, an airplane factory, half a million rifles, vast ammunition stores, anti-aircraft guns and tanks. Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Good News | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

The Lords: ¶ Queried the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime War Minister, as to whether the United Kingdom has sufficient food stores to hold out in case an enemy cut off Great Britain's supplies. "We calculate our three months' supply ought to be enough for us in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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