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...nature and functions of the proposed international bank of settlement (TIME, March 11, 25), and at the very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls Baited. The offer made by Dr. Schacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Crisis of Reparations | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...STIMMING. Far away in the Manhattan office of the North German Lloyd, the blow pierced a deep vein of German sentiment; and of the two principal officials one sobbed as only a man can, while the other sat for a time stunned with grief. Naturally, however, the blackest pall of German grief hung thickly over Hamburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Speed Queen Burns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...This blackamoor musical comedy suggests in episodes the history of the black race from Cushites to Harlemites. In the syncopated moments of that history there is such brazen, delicious gusto as whites never attain. The humor is racially familiar and pleasing. One disconsolate Negro moans: "I'm the blackest ball on the table." But the company is too naive; needs a tonic of finesse to turn its dusky vigor into fine artistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tsetse Fly | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken, the thousands of women voters in Ohio who know that Willis has fought for their homes and firesides against the blackest beasts that ever annoyed human kind (the liquor gang) will lose no chance of resenting these insults of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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