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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese ear question was put to the Customs Bureau by Eli Lilly & Co., which stated that it had arranged to buy in China three pairs of ears needed in its Indianapolis laboratories in connection with some experiments in plastic surgery by Shanghai-born Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Lilly's famed director of pharmacological research. When newshawks sought out Lilly's Dr. Chen, all he would say was that he was working on a hunch "which may or may not prove successful...
Farinacci's contribution was specially significant, for this "Overlord of the North" has long been entrusted to speak II Duce's mind. It was he who laid down the minimum terms for solving the Ethopian dispute, terms which led to the still born Hoare-Laval scheme (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935). It was he who last year reviled British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley for knuckling under to the police. It was he who roared loudest against the Coronation of King George and said of those Italians who wanted to go to London to see it: "We shall do everything...
...Born in Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...
...future Congressman was born (1895) in San Antonio, a stone's throw from the Alamo, the eleventh and last of his family. After a year at V. M. I. he finished college at the University of Texas, took three years of law in one and was admitted to the bar at 20. At 24 he was president of the San Antonio Bar Association. His War record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics...
Arthur Burton Rascoe came from such acorny beginnings that sentimentalists of success might well have expected his career to achieve oaklike stature. Born (1892) in Fulton, Ky. where his father tended bar, he spent his barefoot childhood in the peaceful democracy of a small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward...