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...legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Homage By Reds | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Pretty, angry-mouthed Grace Greenwood, 27, undertook to slap the theme of Motiey on two walls of the main lobby. Her first panel takes money from mine to mint, shows Mexican laborers drilling, digging, trucking ore; smelters refining and casting the metal; and finally, a porcine bureaucrat receiving and counting the bars. Last week Grace Greenwood finished drawing the design on the second wall, taking money from mint to rich man's pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexican Market | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Dragons' Teeth | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Frederic W. Cook, Democrat. Age: 61. Experience: Somerville City Clerk for fifteen years; Secretary of State for fourteen years. As it is an administrative post, there are no campaign issues, he says. He stands on his record. Impartial estimate: efficient bureaucrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURLEY AND BACON REPLY TO LIBERAL CLUB'S QUESTIONS | 10/30/1934 | See Source »

Several months back Crocodile editors got the Soviet high command's unofficial permission to put to the jocular test the knowledge and alertness of high Soviet bureaucrats. They invented a fanciful Academy of Plans for Transcosmic Sciences and a subsidiary Trust for the Exploitation of Meteoric Iron. But they needed that high sign of Soviet officialdom, a rubber stamp. So they advertised that they had lost their rubber stamp and promptly a bureaucrat gave them permission to have one made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crocodile Laugh | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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