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Rich & powerful in their far-flung mineral empire, the Brothers Guggenheim must have been glad to see last week behind them. Threatened in Chile by political agitation against their nitrate interests, in Manhattan, on their copper front, they faced the Belgian Congo's prolific Katanga. Nor were they alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Copper Quarrel | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Conferences last week were on what the copper industry calls an "informal basis," the customary dodge to get around the Sherman Act. But not only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Copper Quarrel | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

The Author. André Maurois (Emile Herzog) was brought up to be manager of his family textile mills at Elbeauf, France, an uncongenial job from which the War rescued him. Since he spoke English Maurois was made liaison officer to the Ninth Scottish Division, then to British G. H. Q...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men's Life Catalog* | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

The Dreyfus Case (British International) relates, with few deviations from fact, the events which followed France's conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason in 1894. The merits of the picture are, as they should be. more dramatic than didactic. It introduces with too much profusion and too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Next day nine Marine planes were doing "coiled-spring" loops in single file across the sky. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, loudly audible to the crowd 2,000 ft. below. Two planes, piloted by Lieuts. L. H. ("Sandy") Sanderson and W. O. Brice, had collided. As their planes fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: At Cleveland | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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