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...fellow couldn't really stand on thin air or the side of a liner no matter how boundless his affections! Yet he's doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Philippines, announced before departing for the U. S. two months ago that he hoped and expected to return. But his friends know that he has had his eye on Michigan's Governorship for a long time, that at 43 his political ambitions are virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis Stimson, who became Herbert Hoover's Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Riskless Resignation | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schmeling Reward | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...that our science is sufficiently advanced for us to distinguish between real, pretended and unconscious motives, even in statesmen. The desire to disguise national militarism by continual talk about peace will not protect political leaders from the judgment of history. The secret promoters of militarism are responsible for the boundless misery which a new war is sure to bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

Explanation: Neither under Lenin in 1920 nor under Stalin in 1935 has the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Distress Goods | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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