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In appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

"To sum up the merits of man suffrage for a visitor from Mars after 15 decades would even now be difficult, for no one can know what noble proposal may be offered at any moment and manfully carried out nor what recrudescence of the Stone Age may suddenly appear under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Ten Years After | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

In appearance he is slim, erect, austere. Under shaggy grey brows, his blue eyes can snap and glare; beneath a grey mustache are lips that can set more grimly than any in the Senate. Before the oil investigations he dressed without care; since then he is trimly tailored and tonsured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

A heavy, hairy, manlike creature, with low brows and tearing teeth, slouched one half million years ago, into a limestone cave 30 miles from what is now Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ten Peking Men | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

As neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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