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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Tete-Ansa, a Gold Coast prince who is considerably blacker (see cut) than his country's cocoa, is inclined to blame it on the British. "One day in 1916 I had a vision," he says. "I decided to give up being a prince and become a businessman." He handed over his social duties to a younger cousin, and devoted his time to the flea he had in his ear about the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Burnt Cocoa | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...barbarians of Ethiopia." It made such an ugly scandal that Mr. Baldwin had to take it all back in the House of Commons; Sir Samuel Hoare sat with tears trickling down his cheeks; Mr. Eden was made Foreign Secretary; and within a few weeks many a hard-headed London businessman was saying, "Hoare was absolutely right." One of those hard-headed businessmen was Neville Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer...

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

...keeper of another man's confidence!" cried ex-Secretary Eden, neatly suggesting that he was above keeping Businessman Chamberlain's squalid conscience. "Agreements that are worthwhile are never made on the basis of threats. . . . The Prime Minister has strong views on foreign policy and I respect him for it. I have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife...

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

...influential "old families." From an importing firm and small law practice in 1910 he has built a $4,000,000 fortune. Last week, as he took over the Presidency, he had the backing of foreign and Argentine financial interests, who expect an era of good business under their businessman-President. In a country where foreign capital has some $4,000,000,000 invested and where exports of the livestock and agricultural barons are 90% of the nation's business, it looked as if they would get what they wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Justo's Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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