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Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. did not rise from boyhood poverty in West Virginia to wealth and power in Pennsylvania by wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Sugar Boy | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Next day the beleaguered Villa Cimbrone was guarded by four carabineers, three police dogs. On the locked gate hung a "keep out" sign. But from talkative servants at the villa, reporters were able to piece together the kind of idyl their editors were gasping for: Greta milking a cow named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Idyl | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

It is possible that Anthony Eden, by resigning just when he did, can place himself at the head of a political faction which may ultimately make him Prime Minister. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, two much disgruntled Government outsiders, were already openly Eden's backers this week. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion of Eden | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

If Premier Nahas again bows to the young King Farouk may be expected to press his advantage to push through his imperious desire to name one-third of the Senate himself, instead of merely confirming the hand-picked appointees of the Premier and Cabinet who hitherto have filled the 53...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: King v. Cabinet | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

To the U. S. man in the street, a symphony conductor is somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Maestro | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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