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...William Sheafe Chase, who said: "I have no personal animosity toward this man but think it very unwise to have him at this time to what I consider a very im nity." portant Wrote moral Editor influence Quirk: in the "No one commu accused Arbuckle of making a picture wasn't clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...nomination, made news last week when he: i) addressed the graduating class of Vassar College ("The class ignorance of the educated classes about governmental matters is ... most appalling. . . . This letter I received from a lady, a college graduate, who wrote to her Governor to find out why her garbage wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

TIME of May 25 carries an advertisement with historical background for The Crosley Radio Corp. Josephine is represented having a little marital discussion with Napoleon about his Moscow campaign. I wasn't there with a Crosley but Marie Louise of Austria and not Josephine, was Napoleon's wife then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...Frenchman was still Foreign Minister or just Citizen Briand. His resignation was in the hands of Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France, but the Cabinet had issued an evasive communiqué suggesting that it might be withdrawn. Briand himself had said sturdily, "I resigned-it was my duty, wasn't it?" On leaving Paris, cheered wildly at the station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous by their absence, M. Briand had accepted a large bouquet of red roses from a young woman, apparently of the working class. Her face was tearstained. Overcome by emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unanimous Desire | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...foolish sentimentalism he realizes, but nevertheless, it is a mood that will not be denied. He has never quite brought himself to the realization that change is the strongest son of life. What was it Omar said. "Ah take the cash and let the small change go?" It wasn't quite that, but near enough, near enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/8/1931 | See Source »

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