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Brighter would be the life of any President who did not have to thread a cautious way through the dark, dank forest of political patronage. Guiding him through the labyrinth of petty factions to worthy appointments is the high duty of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Forest | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Over the Solent spithead, thread of English Channel between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, three Englishmen and three Italians raced for a new world's air speed record last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 332 m. p. h. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these events are "a counsel to eagles, and a warning to their despoilers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cotton Crisis | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Sebastian Spering Kresge sells Odo-ro-no, oilcloth, paper, pins, ribbons, rods, soaps, suspenders, tacks, thread, ungents, union suits, valentines, vaseline, wire, xylophones, yarn, yardsticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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