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Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brinkmann's Brass Band | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

The next morning they were aroused by the landlady, who was very much distracted. "You've eaten the dog's meat!" she howled.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident. In 1930 Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian coronation. Waugh repaid him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

A favorite public relations stunt of big companies is to show customers or the public through their factories. Last May Western Electric Co. held open house in its Hawthorne Works at Chicago primarily for employes and their friends. The employes liked it so much that last week Western Electric held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Open House | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

But Curley was surrounded and distracted by scores of other lobbyists who also thronged about his desk. "Are you sure you are in the right convention?" he asked the Harvard-Radcliffe band.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Pressure Group Gets "God Help You" Reply When Interviewing Curley | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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