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...deal. Rehabilitation has to be concentrated in a power capable of effective action in order that decisions can be made quickly. Lacking such executive leadership, the country has blundered from one crisis to another, never able to maintain a continuous domestic or foreign policy due to the changing complexion of the multitudinous cabinets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCE AT THE CROSS-ROADS | 11/7/1934 | See Source »

...than 1,000. His special duty as a fellow of the College of Surgeons will be to regiment Negro doctors behind the College's policy of fostering insurance policies to pay hospital bills. As with every intelligent Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl. The children attend the swank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Negro Fellow | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...renewal of a lot of subscriptions. Keep it up. Maybe some of us chaps who have been stung will get a break. Anyhow, we are fed up on a college-bred wife whose remaining asset of her college days consists of a taste for punk cigarets plus a tarnished complexion and an insistence to short-circuit any and all opinions contrary to her own by espousing a look of pseudo-intelligence that rates alongside some of the funny cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...weeks all French newspapers have been muttering that political parties of every complexion were arming for civil war, but here was the first official threat to the Government. Premier Doumergue won his point that to balance the budget the pension cuts must be retroactive from April 1, then hastened to comply with other parts of the veterans' demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Budget and Ultimatum | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...women were of darker complexion with 39 per cent of brunet skins to 31 for the men. The commonest color of hair was golden brown; dark brown and black hair was found to be commoner in men, while red hair was twice as frequent in the female sex. Golden blend hair was more often found in males, but due to the higher average age of the females, they were the more predominantly gray-haired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST ANTHROPOLOGICAL STATISTICS, MADE FROM EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

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