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White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: $300 for Junk | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

¶ The President continued his almost alphabetical breakfasts at 8 a.m. for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senatorial list, already down to the S's-Shortridge, Swanson, etc.-preceded down among the W's-Wagner, Walsh, Waterman, Wheeler. At one breakfast last week, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

I get an unmitigated wallop off of such letters as the Alphabetical Englishman Dillington-Dowse - or whatever his name was -and the gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

THE OLD LADY FROM DUBUQUE--Her nephew wishes she wouldn't. Waxes benevolent at the alphabetical dexterity of the band; My, she opines, they certainly know their P's and Q's. Yes, replies the long suffering relative, and their D's and H's. Her own belief is that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

Council Sits. At the first session of this "1926 Council," Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann appeared, pink and portly, as the first representative of Germany, to sit at the Council table. Reaching into his breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seats | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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