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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: California Climax | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported in the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romains ( Cont'd) | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

N.R.A. control means price control. Competition means no control. Big Business has tried both, and has run both off the track. Now the small businessman--whom Big Business put in jail for pressing a pair of pants below the price they dictated--can safely walk the track, repairing it as he goes. V. H. Kramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richberg Control | 10/9/1934 | See Source »

Hugo Enders, a successful Manhattan businessman (notions & novelties) had buried his talent for pure mathematics in the business scramble, but his conscience was still guarding the grave. He disliked his wife's literary, artistic circle, disbelieved in her "career," dispossessed her in favor of more responsive women. As long as he had studied mathematics on the sly with his brilliant friend, Abe Parass, he felt some future hope. But now he never saw Abe ; business opportunities were coming thicker ; soon there would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Men Only | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...best friend to pick a stranger for his wife. The marriage has been a perfect success. Noma returned to Tokyo and an administrative position at the Imperial University, settled down to business. Several trading ventures, undertaken on the side, failed and he came to the conclusion he was no businessman. His first magazine grew out of a debating society. Founded in 1910 and still going strong, Yuben ("Eloquence") contains orations and essays by professors and students. Encouraged by its modest success, Noma ventured into the publishing world on a shoestring, begging, borrowing, digging deeper & deeper into debt, dodging creditors, pleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clubby Magazines | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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