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...member of the Bacardi family and as the representative of the company in the U. S. of America, I beg to correct certain statements and comments which you have published. You refer to 16 living grandchildren and their various null as liking to have hand in running the Santiago distillery and say that "as soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor." This is far from the truth as all negotiations were handled directly with the president of the company or with the undersigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...give this [Germany's] claim [to equality] documentary form," he continued in ringing tones, "I decided to beg the Reich President to dissolve the Reichstag and give the German people opportunity for making an historic affirmation. . . . May the world, from such an affirmation, gain the conviction that the German people, in this battle for equality and honor, declare itself completely at one with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quintuple Dynamite | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...hypocrite by subscribing to such a resolution." For four years he loudly mocked Herbert Hoover's attempt to bring back prosperity. A regular attendant at the annual conferences of U. S. mayors, he was in Washington last May vainly trying to beg, borrow or steal some Federal cash to help Milwaukee's unemployed. Though he talks much about the efficiency and cheapness of his city services, non-Socialists have kept him from making Milwaukee a model Socialist municipality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Milwaukee Recallers | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...reprisal King Feisal's commander on the Irak-Syrian frontier, fierce Bekir Sidqui Beg, hired Kurds to reenforce his troops and started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1,000 Assyrians, whereas the Assyrian minority in Irak numbers 40,000, mostly peaceful. In a few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter 600 Assyrian villagers were put to the sword, according to British investigators. In Bagdad suave Irak Premier Rashid Ali Beg called the British reports "exaggerated," partially confirmed them when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Border Massacre | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...beg to express appreciation for the honor of being singled out on your pages with my picture in connection with the reference to my as sociation with the development of the Spa at Saratoga Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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