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...Sept. 18 issue of TIME you spelled the name of a Japanese envoy two different ways: Tarauchi and Terauchi. Which is right? This occurs on pages 30 & 31. I have read TIME for 5 years and this is the first time I have caught you up on any typographical error...
...minutes later but 90 minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
...others do his dirty work. He was the biggest frog in his puddle until a bigger, ruggeder individual-spare, pale-eyed, nonfictional John D. Rockefeller-splashed down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance. We have been accused of monopoly, but a better term is unity." After a price war, Banker Larkins saw the point...
Three weeks ago rambunctious Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina introduced a resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington...
Mexico City with a blare of publicity, President Cardenas was equally ostentatious by his absence - he was off in the provinces making speeches praising the expropriation policy. For six days Envoy Richberg cooled his heels, diplomatically saying little and not denying reports that he would propose a compromise whereby the companies would operate the wells for the Mexican Government. Last week this bit of Mexican "mañana policy" was suddenly ended by hard-bitten General Joaquin Amaro...