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...Eric Phipps remains British Ambassador in Berlin, Europe's diplomatic fraternity was inclined to think that von Ribbentrop will have lost rather than gained by his appointment to London. He has been the closest adviser on foreign affairs of Herr Hitler, and his Berlin office, nicknamed Das Euro Ribbentrop, overshadows the German Foreign Office headed by old-school Baron Constantin von Neurath at whom proletarian Nazis sneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Salesman & Culverins | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...gallery of leading U. S. commercial racketeers. This type of crime is lucrative, involves no physical danger, is seldom punished with jail sentences of more than three years. Typical commercial racketeers are the Brothers Minos and Pericles Ziongas, Greeks. Once they set themselves up in Newark. N. J., as Euro-American Corp., obtained credit with impressive but wholly fraudulent financial statements, proceeded to buy $100,000 worth of groceries. When the creditors finally went around to see why their bills were not paid, the only tangible asset they could find was a case of catchup. The rest of the goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Credit Men | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...with their prisoner. When he arrived in Manhattan three weeks ago after a year spent chiefly in French jails for stowing away on the He de France and later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began to fade when the North German Lloyd line maintained that Mike cauld not have come into the country on their boat. Mike soon agreed, said he had entered via Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Royal Yachter | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...rank and file of the Japanese people remained exuberant with war hysteria. The War Department, disregarding Euro pean protests, sent the 9th and 12th Divisions of the Japanese Army to Shanghai to bolster the none-too-successful blue jackets of Admirals Shiosawa and Nomura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Genro | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Via Catapult | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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