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...made by the intensely loyal Japanese press. It is even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment, the genealogical experts of the Imperial Household Ministry discreetly apprised the press last week that there is no precedent requiring brothers of the Emperor to defer to him in this respect. Public opinion, according to the experts, must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Ides of March! | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...gentle, tactful person; angularity tells of shrewdness. Flowers and leaves show a friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy scrawls are due to disordered, scrambled minds. The little house with smoke curling from the chimney is drawn by the lonely, sad, disappointed-in-love, childless person. You never scribble? Then your wish, desire, will, ability all flow into the same channel. ELISABETH THOMAS Graphologist Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child of both women. A self-made man marries the daughter of an impoverished business acquaintance; she eventually falls in love with him, he will never admit that he loves her. But when she dies, he kills himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unamunity | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Married, childless, tall, gaunt, white-haired but young-faced, Col. William Cooper Procter is the man who guides the destinies of Ivory Soap, his company's most famed product. His military title was won in the Ohio National Guard. Later at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, he became the firm friend of General Leonard Wood, whom he supported for the Presidential nomination. Princeton graduated him in 1883, thanks him for Procter Hall, dining hall of the graduate college. Deeply religious and serious, Col. Procter is no reformer. He drives fearlessly and fast in open cars, goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Thus a married but childless Englishman with the modest income of $5,000 pays more than a tenth of all he earns to the State ($558.50), or almost 100 times more than a U. S. citizen in the same circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Time May Have Come. . . | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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