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...minor leaguers, but could trounce many a U. S. college team. U. S. baseball missionaries are more welcome in Japan than any other kind. One of the most famed of these, a onetime big-leaguer named Herbert Hunter, announced last week that he had accepted a three-year contract as adviser to the new league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ball in Japan | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...thief is punished with death, for they argue that if he steals once he will do it again, and as no one keeps his valuables locked up, stealing must be kept down. But if a man commits murder they all mourn with him, then he departs on a three-year exile. When he comes back the murdered man's nearest relative and the murderer's next of kin procreate a child, who is given the murdered man's name; then they call quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White* | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

When Editor Edward Bok retired in 1919, Mrs. Rinehart was offered the editorship of the Ladles' Home Journal, regretfully turned it down. But she went to Hollywood on a three-year contract. Still the family fortunes rose. They moved to a bigger house in Sewickley. They moved to Washington, D. C. They vacationed in the Cascades, in Mexico, in Egypt. The boys grew up, went to college (Harvard) and married. Now two of them are members of the firm of Farrar & Rinehart, have helped publish several of their mother's books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Career Mother* | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...George Copeland and Hicks Epton, and they will be accompanied by their coach, Walter Emery. Captain Copeland is a four-year debater, senior in the law school, member of Phi Delta Phi, national honorary legal fraternity, and member of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary fraternity. Epton is a three-year debater, junior lawyer, president of the oratorical council, and a member of the same legal fraternity as his colleague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OKLAHOMA TEAM MEETS UNIVERSITY DEBATERS | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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