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Only in the peculiar internal political structure of Poland is it possible today for such a coldblooded, unscrupulous, calculating diplomat as Colonel Beck to get away with his fast & loose international dealings. Even in modern dictatorships a Führer or a Duce must sell his people on accepting his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

¶ A fat, whining customers' man, who, coached by his coldblooded, canny wife, worms his way into the bank, plays the Black Widow that finally gobbles up the overconfident Bertillon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moneymania | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

The one exception in this ring-around-a-rosy is Government. At this point Author Scherman, who says you must keep your shirt on if you want to understand economics, throws his hat on the ground and stamps on it. Government, says he, welshes on all its promises. It steals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Economics | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

"Now when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Egoists | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

War, which is sometimes spoken of as murder, is more often thought of as manslaughter in self-defense than as murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War, First Degree | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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