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...been denounced by the leaders of all three British parties (Labor, Liberal, Conservative), but how now? Is a little game played with three tariff shells and a rubber trade pea still disreputable when endorsed by the Bank of England, the "big five" and Morgan, Grenfell & Co.? Most certainly not! Wrong was made right in a trice, last week, and black white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miracle | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss in 2,300 ft. of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Frustration at Matanzas | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...Wrong Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Andrew Carnegie's next door neighbor in Manhattan, but his chief philanthropic adviser and severest critic. To President Pritchett once remarked Charitarian Carnegie: "You really don't realize how valuable you are to me. You are one of the few people who tell me when I am wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Elevation of Suzzallo | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady Clinic, Johns Hopkins hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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