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...Wilson listened to House, but did not call in Treasury experts to advise him. Wilson and Bryan, says Dr. Tansill, were gulled by Wall Street, approving measures that ran counter to their policy of neutrality in general, until the U. S. was bound to the Allied cause by the firmest of economic ties. Nevertheless, he clears Wall Street of the charge of dragging the U. S. into the War. The pressure of Wilson's intimate advisers and the failure of Germany to cooperate in Wilson's peace program were the immediate causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aaron's Difficulties | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected it was not going to be paid promptly-and has since become one of its firmest supporters. Dramatically, he presented the controversy to the meeting as a personal matter, told his listeners that Baritone Bonelli had lately said: "No one who doesn't make $10,000 a year has a right to call himself a grand opera artist." To cries of ''Bravo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Artists & Artistes | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...sale in England last week went the new Edward VIII postage stamps: Ha'penny, penny-ha'penny and tuppence-ha'penny. Only by the firmest insistence was His Majesty able to get this most unprecedented royal British issue past its critics in the Post Office. The new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 30,000,000 Edwards | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer," are abomina tions which insult his profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Engineer | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Stakes & Sweeps | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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