Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After long consultation with Confucius, U.S. Poet Ezra Pound (TIME, Jan. 26) returned from retirement to the Rome Radio. This, Rome blandly announced, was "in accordance with the Fascist policy of . . . free expression of opinion by those who are qualified to hold...
...inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency. And so a large measure of the responsibility in turning the U.S. and British loans to good uses...
Harvard names aren't the only familiar ones included in the New Directions catalogue. There is material by such varied talents as Kay Boyle, Confucius, John Donne, Flaubert, Goethe: and Ezra Pound, to mention only...
Charley Chan, apparently still on a glorified Cook's Tour, accompanied by a cameraman and Mary Beth Hughes, now finds himself busy with intrigue and rhumba in South America. Charley-fast becoming the poor man's Confucius-gets around as much as Mrs. Roosevelt. This time it's "Charley Chan in Rio," which rounds out the bill. The audience was relieved to find that it wasn't "Charley Chan...
Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...