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...enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even...
...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...
...with whom she lives in Manhattan at No. 244 East 49th St.,† she says to interviewers: "I am not married and never was." In Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn lives on a chicken farm with her friend Laura Harding, goes to no parties, calls herself an exhibitionist because she likes to wear overalls to work. When she returns to cinema, she will perform first as Queen Elizabeth, later as Joan...
...underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot: Miss Dee hurrying off to investigate an advertisement for models, in the hope that the advertiser will attack...
...loud, fiery speech to 10,000 farmers in behalf of a producers' strike. In cowbarn language he proposed a Farmers Holiday Association to execute the strike. He would organize and head it-at $5 per day, to be paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing out pledge cards wherein husbandmen agreed to withhold their goods until prices reach a level above the cost of production. First focus of the Holiday Association's activity was Sioux City where...