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...Swift and masterful was the style in which veteran Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré consolidated the position of his new Cabinet, last week, smacked down his program of action before Parliament, and swept an enemy or two from the political chess board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Unknown Government | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum. Pompously the Three Regents of Rumania, who reign for Boy King Mihai, bade Peasant Maniu welcome and requested him to take steps to form a Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Peasant Cabinet | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Memorial Room the most noteworthy manuscript is the "Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D." This is entirely in Scott's own handwriting, and is in the uncorrected form. The first edition of "Ivanhoe" in the original boards should also attract bibliophiles. The first edition of "Vanity Fair" with Thackeray's own illustrations rivals the previously mentioned copy in rarity. The copy has the woodcut of Marcus Steyne which was later suppressed. There is, finally, an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Broute's entitled, "Adventures of Captain Hasting," and several signed first editions of "Clarissa," and "Moll Flanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS --and-- CRITIQUES | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...Saloman '29, L. B. Moore (NH), Harry Smith (NH), H. S. Coldwell (NH), R. H. Phelps '30, R. W. Hale '30, W. R. Koch '29, C. B. Davls '31, D. H. Wilson '31, C. A. Prisk (NH), H. D. Jackson (NH), K. F. Fielding (S), Carrol Swift (S), Harold Kirkpartick (C), Rubin Parkins (NH), P. S. Dalton '31, C. D. Bowmen (S), Ingram Terry (S), S. S. Elliott (C), A. B. Douropulis '31, John Rothschild Jr. '29, S. L. Burr '31, J. S. Mahon (NH), George Chesey (S), G. H. Willis '30, P. D. Morris '31, A. B. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD RUNNERS WIN FIRST OPEN MEET | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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