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...general tone of your correspondence from Japan is hatefully cynical-and the effect is to make the Japanese seem to be a jumpy, excited, silly people, instead of being the sane, fine, courteous, peace-loving people they really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve another Roosevelt, as Ambassador to France. Herbert, who died last spring, was Macy's treasurer and president of Macy-owned L. Bamberger & Co. in Newark. The middle brother, Percy Selden. a precise, courteous, slightly nervous gentleman with thinning hair, is now in full command. Generally credited with being the brains of Macy's merchandising, he is always known to Macy's 8,000 employes as Mister Percy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Codes for Counters | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...Empress, after a single brief but courteous glance at this newcomer, had returned to the business which had been occupying her at the moment of Lord Tilbury's arrival. She pressed her shapely nose against the lowest rail of the sty and snuffled moodily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobbled Empress | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Commodity Dollar. That night Secretary Hull was able to read to the Conference a second Roosevelt pronouncement so courteous in tone that the Continentals, whose feathers had been badly ruffled by what they considered the President's rude language and dictatorial air in his first message, were perceptibly smoothed down. Not retreating one inch. Mr. Roosevelt again refused gold stabilization between currencies but in effect persuasively invited the world to join the U. S. on a standard of managed currency and commodity money. "Revaluation of the dollar in terms of American commodities," he wrote, "is an end from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CONFERENCE: Same With Me! | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

With reference to your excellent and courteous recognition of the passing away of Stoddard King in Spokane, Wash, last week [TIME, June 26], it is noteworthy and lamentable that the work by which a fine creative mind is best known is usually the one by which he would least prefer to be known. Stoddard King's work matured to such extremely fine flights of puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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