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...figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said to have boomed at Songwriter Irving Berlin of Hearst Jr.: "He is the most promising young man who has come into the profession of journalism during my lifetime...
...background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead and factotum...
...educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take...
...emphasized one of the most significant trends of American polity, the sole important deviation from the canons set up by our English model. This is the American attitude toward the judiciary which has stripped the common law judge of his former despotic powers and reduced him to a mere figurehead...
Meanwhile the only man in Athens who was not greatly flurried by events was old Paul Koundouriotis, recalled to the "Provisional Presidency" of the purely hypothetical "Hellenic Republic" by Dictator Kondylis. Admiral Koundouriotis, 71, has been by tacit consent the ornamental and gentlemanly figurehead of Greece since the departure of King George II from Athens (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923). For a time the hard-boiled adventurers who are exploiting Greece dubbed the Admiral, "Regent." Two years ago he was styled "Provisional President," and during the last few months of the Pangalos regime he was forced to resign and suffered...