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...season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash of the season." Equally in accord were other critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...duty (see p. 18), the U. S. Government created exactly similar dilemmas for most of its diplomats when Acting Secretary of State R. Walton Moore released a Presidential executive order designed to discourage officers of the U. S. foreign service from taking alien wives. The order was in accord with the State Department's anxiety over heightening national animosities, which has caused widespread reshuffling of its representatives who seemed likely to be unduly affected by attachments in the lands of their assignments Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal and Turkey have similar regulations against diplomatic marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Duty v. Love | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...voluminous on the subject, and can talk profoundly on its thousand-and-one ramifications. The purpose of his organization is to induce people to sign cards, saying, "I am in accord with the aim of the Federation to out-law war by popular vote." To date, they have obtained 600,000 signatures in every country in the world. In countries like our own, they have less difficulty, because of the popular feeling for peace. In countries like Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia, however, they meet with more determined opposition, accounted for by their collective warlike attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "War Is Hell," Says Francis Lederer in Speaking of World Disrupted by Greed | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Your description of Mr. Huxman as a "second-string politician" is not in accord with what we regard the true meaning of that term in this State. "Second-string" is defined by most dictionaries as something inferior or second rate, and the word "politician" is not exactly complimentary. Mr. Huxman is not a "second-string politician"-as a matter of fact he is not a "politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Japan, under Article II of which non-Communist States are invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept. France does not wish to add to the all-too-real causes for conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer's Crusade | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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